Beerball Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Ninety per cent of European cases were amongst adolescents and adults who had not been vaccinated or people where it was not known if they had been vaccinated or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cugalabanza Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Sad. This garbage should be a thing of the past. It's a very sick world we live in. And by sick, I mean stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloBill Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Simply reckless not to get vaccinated .... what's next a polio outbreak? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Ninety per cent of European cases were amongst adolescents and adults who had not been vaccinated or people where it was not known if they had been vaccinated or not. The anti-vaccination crowd's response will be "Ten percent of the cases were vaccinated! So vaccines don't work!" Conveniently forgetting that, had there been better vaccination coverage, there wouldn't have been an outbreak to begin with, and those 10% wouldn't have been exposed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SageAgainstTheMachine Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 At least it's not an autism outbreak. I mean, that's what vaccines do after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyst Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 I got the flu shot and pneumonia shot. I have the flu. I had symptoms for about 48 hours and only on my arse for 15 hours. When I have got this flu in the past I usually am out a week. This time 1 day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Hammersticks Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 I heard an interesting statistic on the radio lately (sorry no link) related to how approx 4-5 percent of school children obtain exemption (either for medical or religious reasons) from getting the immunizations required by federal law for kindergarten enrollment. That statistic was even higher in my state, Alaska, where nearly 9 percent of enrolling kindergarten students obtained this exemption. This is crazyness! I'm just waiting for an outbreak of polio to hit interior Alaska. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyst Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 I heard an interesting statistic on the radio lately (sorry no link) related to how approx 4-5 percent of school children obtain exemption (either for medical or religious reasons) from getting the immunizations required by federal law for kindergarten enrollment. That statistic was even higher in my state, Alaska, where nearly 9 percent of enrolling kindergarten students obtained this exemption. This is crazyness! I'm just waiting for an outbreak of polio to hit interior Alaska. We sort of need one...jus' sayin'...Darwin is one smart fellow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 I heard an interesting statistic on the radio lately (sorry no link) related to how approx 4-5 percent of school children obtain exemption (either for medical or religious reasons) from getting the immunizations required by federal law for kindergarten enrollment. That statistic was even higher in my state, Alaska, where nearly 9 percent of enrolling kindergarten students obtained this exemption. This is crazyness! I'm just waiting for an outbreak of polio to hit interior Alaska. 4-5% is roughly the threshold for herd immunity. I wouldn't be surprised that Alaska's numbers are skewed by abysmally low vaccination rates among the Inuit. Which is probably still better than vaccination rates in upper middle class San Diego, which used to run about 70% not too long ago (could still be, I just don't know the most recent numbers). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unbillievable Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 At least it's not an autism outbreak. I mean, that's what vaccines do after all. Please tell me this is a joke. I haven't been able to find a sarcasm font in the reply menu... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyst Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Please tell me this is a joke. I haven't been able to find a sarcasm font in the reply menu... it was. no reason to be worked up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim in Anchorage Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 4-5% is roughly the threshold for herd immunity. I wouldn't be surprised that Alaska's numbers are skewed by abysmally low vaccination rates among the Inuit. Which is probably still better than vaccination rates in upper middle class San Diego, which used to run about 70% not too long ago (could still be, I just don't know the most recent numbers). Inuit's are in Canada, so they don't effect Alaska's numbers. Alaska natives are Yupik. Considering the life style in the Alaska villages I suspect measles is the lest of their concerns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SageAgainstTheMachine Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Please tell me this is a joke. I haven't been able to find a sarcasm font in the reply menu... Yes, sarcastic indeed. Quite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 I got the flu shot and pneumonia shot. I have the flu. I had symptoms for about 48 hours and only on my arse for 15 hours. When I have got this flu in the past I usually am out a week. This time 1 day. What do you do that you get the flu so often? The last time I had the flu was 20 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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