@secondhand-wonderland wrote:
@gleee58 wrote:
Thanks, sure is a good question.
I know someone who lost a child to either measles or chicken pox, can't remember which. I just remember the shock of hearing about the death caused by what we thought were harmless diseases that all kids got.
I'd rather a living child with autism than a dead child.
I'm no health professional but I'd say it would be very uncommon for a child to die from either chicken pox or measles alone. I'd assume the child of which you speak possibly had either a compromised immune system or had contracted other infections as well as either chicken pox or measles.
The chicken pox vaccination always has me a bit baffled because everyone I know that has had the immunisation has still contracted chicken pox at least once in their life. Most commonly when they are young children, yet schools still want to administer it again when children are in year 7. Why would you need to get a vaccination for something you have already had, and have built up an immunity for?
I'd rather a compulsory screening test that determines the level of risk to an individual which can be conducted before a series of vaccinations. If you or one of your family members were at a higher risk you would want to know. One size does not fit all when it comes to pharmacuticals.
How do you think the people that do have vaccine damaged children (and there are a lot of them these days) feel when people in the HCI fob them off when they say that their child was a perfectly normal, developing child one day and due to the adverse event following the immunisation their child is no longer the same. Children have been known to stop talking, convert back to crawling, cry and scream for days on end, high fevers for days on end, lose eye contact and any desire for physical contact.
And just as a disclaimer for the link I'm about to post, I neither agree nor disagree but I recieved an email recently introducing me to the movement #hearthiswell it's parents from all over the world who believe they have vaccine damaged children:
http://www.nextworldhealthtv.com/page/27480.html (they are short 1 minute videos that play one after the other)
Measles is a serious and highly contagious viral disease which causes fever, runny nose, cough and sore red eyes, followed by a rash. Measles can sometimes lead to dangerous complications such as pneumonia. About one person in 1,000 who contracts measles will develop inflammation of the brain. For every 10 children who become affected in this way, one will die and many will have permanent brain damage. Measles still causes deaths in Australia. A rare condition called SSPE can develop several years after a measles infection. SSPE rapidly destroys the brain and is always fatal.
Measles can be caught through coughs and sneezes from an infected person before that person realises they are sick.
http://www.health.vic.gov.au/immunisation/factsheets/mmr.htm
There were 4 deaths from varicella in Australia between 2003 and 2005.
http://www.myvmc.com/diseases/chicken-pox-varicella-zoster-virus/
Measles, a viral respiratory infection, killed over 500,000 children in 2003, more than any other vaccine-preventable disease. The measles death toll in Africa is so high – every minute one child dies – that many mothers don't give children real names until they have survived the disease. Measles weakens the immune system and renders children very susceptible to fatal complications from diarrhoea, pneumonia and malnutrition. Those that survive may suffer blindness, deafness or brain damage.
http://www.unicef.org/immunization/index_why.html
I think based on the percentages given, 4000 of them would have died.
