Congratulations Anti-vaxers. Measles spreading in California

[Sava]

More dad's would get there kids vaccinated if pediatric nurses looked like this:

Thankworthy.

I'm all out of thanks.

[Proteus_MST]

Seems like we also have a Measles outbreak in Berlin, Germany
among asylum-seekers and germans who didn´t get a full vaccination in their life.

I´m glad that I had measles during my childhood and therefore have immunity

[DinoDoc]

If you want to talk about stupidity then why don't we talk about ...

This new story out of California? Don't mind if I do:

Public Health Officials Warn Against Intentional Exposure To Measles

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Concern is growing that parents who haven’t vaccinated their children against the measles may expose them intentionally vis-à-vis parties in an effort to build immunity.

“Instead of like a gift bag from a party, you end up with an infectious disease. Parents would rather give their child the disease than the vaccination,” Dr. Charles Sophy, the medical director for the Los Angeles County Department of Child and Family Services, said.

Sophy says the abuse hotline has received several recent calls from people concerned about measles parties.

“The bottom line is it is not abuse because it is a parent’s decision to vaccinate or not. But what can come out of that could be looked at as abuse if there’s bad health care or there’s other problems,” the doctor said.

It’s rare for children to die from measles but one in 1,000 do. Other children get permanent brain damage.

The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) reports that 30 percent of people with measles in the current California outbreak have been hospitalized.

Dr. Gil Chavez of the CDPH issued a statement that said: “CDPH strongly recommends against the intentional exposure of children to measles as it unnecessarily places the exposed children at potentially grave risk and could contribute to further spread of the outbreak.”

“There’s nothing worse than a parent thinking they’ve done the right thing for their child and they end up with a bad outcome,” Sophy said.

KCAL9’s Erica Nochlin spoke with a parent, who doesn’t get her children vaccinated, but said she would never participate in a measles party.

Public health officials said Friday that 103 have contracted the measles since the outbreak began

Since the outbreak began, 103 people have contracted the measles, public health officials said Friday. According to the Associated Press, two-thirds of those cases were infected while visiting or working at Disneyland in December.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/...re-of-measles/

Sometimes this is just too easy. It amazes me that this became enough of an issue that state officials felt they had to comment.

[Pedotard]

No they dont, some people are more immune to bugs because their ancestors survived them long ago.

You mean like white people being less vulnerable to smallpox than native americans? White people aren't actually immune to smallpox, genetics just plays a role in determining how vulnerable you are to various diseases and native americans didn't have smallpox plagues in their evolutionary history.

[Dr Strangelove]

This new story out of California? Don't mind if I do:

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/02/06/public-health-officials-urge-against-intentional-exposure-of-measles/

Sometimes this is just too easy. It amazes me that this became enough of an issue that state officials felt they had to comment.

There was a time when doctors and public health officials actually recommended to parents thinking about having children in the near future that they should expose their children if a convenient case of chicken pox, measles or rubella cropped up in the neighborhood. The rationale was that these diseases are particularly dangerous to fetuses and young infants so you didn't want big brother or sister introducing the disease into the household at a time when there might be an even more vulnerable child in the home. If you could manage to get the kids to already have the disease then he'd be immune by the time that the baby was present. When I was in the first grade my Mother brought a little girl in the neighborhood who had chicken pox over to play. I thought it was odd because I understood the idea of contagiousness and their family generally didn't have anything to do with us anyway. Sure enough a week later I had the chicken pox, just in time to miss the class trip to the circus. A year later I had a little brother.

[pchang]

Did you at least get a trip to the circus on your own at a later date?

[Dr Strangelove]

No, it was in town for only a week.

[pchang]

I wonder if they felt any guilt at all.

[Dinner]

You mean like white people being less vulnerable to smallpox than native americans? White people aren't actually immune to smallpox, genetics just plays a role in determining how vulnerable you are to various diseases and native americans didn't have smallpox plagues in their evolutionary history.

Yeah, white people aren't immune they just are not as susceptible due to long expose to the disease and the most susceptible people being killed off. Even the native Americans alive today are the decedents of the least susceptible though they have been under evolutionary pressure from the disease for a shorter period of time.

[Dinner]

My parents had my sister and I go over to the house of a family where the kids already had chickenpox when I was young. Just about all the kids on the block were at that sleep over and by the end everyone had gotten it.

[I AM MOBIUS]

Chickpea!?

Give the man who is always wrong and can't spell a smart phone with autocorrect - even more hilarity than usual ensues!

Dude, maybe the touchscreen is too small? They're getting bigger at such a rate that it won't be long before a 48" model comes out...

[Pedotard]

That seems impractical. How would you ever fit a 48" phone through your front door?

[Sava]

chickpea

good source of fiber and protein

[N35t0r]

I love chickpeas

[I AM MOBIUS]

That seems impractical. How would you ever fit a 48" phone through your front door?

Exactly what I said to the pizza delivery guy!