This all started with a corrupt lawyer and doctor who later retracted their paper and a Hollywood star that had no idea what she was talking about. And somehow it took off from there.
It is a very dangerous myth as you can see from the data in Europe from last year. They saw a 4x increase in measles from the year before, a disease that was basically wiped out before this madness began.
Absolutely mate. I was genuinely dumb-founded to see that there is a very active group of users here on Steemit who are still pushing this harmful misinformation. I normally try to keep the mind set of "each to their own" but this one really boils my blood.
Ya unfortunately trolls exist on all the social media sites, we just need to make sure as steemit grows it doesn't become the common theme.
Just curious why are people scared of measles ?
We had measles parties ?
Fever and a Rash.
Because measles kills children...
Fever and a rash?
Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, in an Associated Press interview in 2014 stated that there have been no measles deaths in the US since 2003.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr59/nvsr59_04.pdf
http://vaccineimpact.com/2015/zero-u-s-measles-deaths-in-10-years-but-over-100-measles-vaccine-deaths-reported/#sthash.jsHvonAX.dpuf
However, the CDC’s National Vital Statistics Reports show 2 deaths associated with measles for 2009 and 2010.
Now let’s look at this measles vaccine
“Pediatricians continue to defend vaccination to the death. The question parents should be asking is, ‘Whose death?’
Robert Mendelsohn, MD
But that may be a fraction of the real number because MDs often do not report vaccine injuries.
Death certificates, usually filled out by MDs, very rarely mention vaccination as the cause of death. They may write encephalitis or brain inflammation rather than vaccination even though vaccines can cause brain inflammation) on the death certificate. We don’t know the real number of vaccine injuries and deaths. But they are most likely much greater than what VAERS reports due to underreporting.
According to Dr. David Kessler, former head of the Food and Drug Administration, "Only about 1 percent of serious events [adverse drug reactions]
are reported to the FDA." Kessler DA, Natanblut S, Kennedy D. et al. Introducing MEDWatch A New Approach to Reporting Medication and Device Adverse Effects and Product Problems. JAMA. 1993;269(21):2765-2768. Another government reporting agency, The National Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), reports 108 children died from the measles vaccine during a ten year period. http://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/index.php
We don’t know how many vaccine injuries and deaths there are but if we apply the above underreporting number to vaccine injuries then possibly as many as 10,800 children might have been harmed or killed by the measles vaccine during the period that at most four died from measles.
In the first decade of reporting, an average of 6,000 measles-related deaths were reported each year. In the decade before 1963 when a vaccine became available, nearly all children got measles by the time they were 15 years of age. It is estimated 3 to 4 million people in the United States were infected each year.
It's nice to use misleading information but why do we look at a time before the disease was basically cured by the vaccine.
https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/history.html
Cured by a vaccine ?
Inject diseases get diseases .
Maybe a little understanding of the difference between cause and effect.
Why do vaccines wear off ?
Oh but I thought they cured measles ? How when you need a booster shot
Natural immunity does not need a booster .
Why do you think adults are getting childhood diseases?
Because their artificial immunity wears off.
You need a refresher on immunology .
I remember when I thought like you .
haha jesus f-ing christ, tinfoils hat at the ready people
You know that they meant to say eradicated, why argue about the semantics of things when you clearly are a wealth of knowledge.
I'm gonna call bullshit again
https://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/mmrdeaths.asp
I'm yet to find any evidence of death by vaccine. 10,800? come on...
The stupidity with this one is painful