Berlin, Germany's capital, has seen a very large measles outbreak on the past months. Since October 2014, 574 measles cases had been reported.
Today, the Berlin health senator confirmed that on 18 February 2015, an 18 month old toddler, who had not been vaccinated against measles, and did not have any chronic disease, died after having been treated for measles infection in the Charité hospital for 5 days. While the child was vaccinated against some diseases, according to the German media, he had not received the recommended MMR. In Germany, the first MMR is usually given between 11 and 14 months and the second is recommended between 15 and 24 months.
Over the past couple of years, discussions about mandatory vaccination had come up in Germany, some child care centers had begun to only accept vaccinated children, and discussions are unlikely to subside now. The question is whether parents, who are already afraid/suspect of the government could be convinced by a mandate - suggestions are welcome how to reach them better.
Meanwhile, our heartfelt thoughts go to the boy's family and everyone whose lives he touched. Another preventable measles death too many.
Today, the Berlin health senator confirmed that on 18 February 2015, an 18 month old toddler, who had not been vaccinated against measles, and did not have any chronic disease, died after having been treated for measles infection in the Charité hospital for 5 days. While the child was vaccinated against some diseases, according to the German media, he had not received the recommended MMR. In Germany, the first MMR is usually given between 11 and 14 months and the second is recommended between 15 and 24 months.
Over the past couple of years, discussions about mandatory vaccination had come up in Germany, some child care centers had begun to only accept vaccinated children, and discussions are unlikely to subside now. The question is whether parents, who are already afraid/suspect of the government could be convinced by a mandate - suggestions are welcome how to reach them better.
Meanwhile, our heartfelt thoughts go to the boy's family and everyone whose lives he touched. Another preventable measles death too many.
My thoughts are with the family and friends of the toddler who died from measles in Berlin.
ReplyDeletePerhaps his death will bring about a new awareness of the importance of having children immunized on time against this serious, sometimes deadly, vaccine-preventable disease.
My heart breaks for the family of this toddler as I know firsthand what a vaccine-preventable disease does to a healthy child and the devastating life path it creates for her and the family bit.ly/1LnA6wl
DeleteI want to make sure that others see Ms. Herman's blogpost at: http://www.measlesrubellainitiative.org/measles-sister/
ReplyDeleteA must-read for those who think that measles is "no big deal". Thank you for sharing Ms. Herman; that couldn't have been easy to write.
So says the Conspiracy-theorist...sorry, try harder next time.
ReplyDeleteWhat's there to reply to? Just a lot of mental masturbation on your part of which you got a lot wrong. Vaccines also stimulate cell-mediated immunity, some more than others. Humoral immune responses also neutralise viruses. So your point is?
ReplyDeletePrager, you're either dumb as a stump or a lying sack of shit; neither bode well for you. I just took a look at one of your wanking paragraphs:
ReplyDeleteEven more striking, when they sequenced their findings, many enteroviral-similar segments were found, suggesting that this may have played a role in causing the changes in 22q11.2 chromosome. Most Gulf War veterans received the oral poliovirus vaccine, which according to the work of Martin, has been shown to be contaminated with the simian CMV. To further strengthen the possibility of a connection, polio virus is an enterovirus.
Now here's the original study: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC103718/
Your claim that they implicated polio virus and found it has a little problem...
You are wrong.
I'll get to your other moronic claims when I have time.
I am posting this as part of my English composition class project. It is meant to be a summary of my final paper.
ReplyDeleteIt has been concluded that Measles is a highly contagious disease that affects children and young adults. The vaccine for this virus is the two dose MMR vaccine. Children that are unvaccinated can become fatally ill. Roughly 60% of children that contracted measles die from Pneumonia and adults die from encephalitis. The best way to prevent children and adults from becoming contagious is to vaccinate. The increase of cases in children has occurred because of the large number of people that are against the vaccine. Reasons parents are against the MMR vaccine is the fear of having their children develop autism, and a new found passion for eating healthfully and living a more natural and organic life. Part of the reason for this reaction is the study that made a linkage between the MMR vaccine and the development of autism. This study was proven to be fraudulent. The CDC has conducted multiple controlled case studies and found no connection between the MMR vaccine and Autism. In fact, the vaccine has been found to be completely safe. The only demographic that should not be vaccinated are immunocompromised children.
Brigitte, great job, looks like you have a very bright future in the pharmaceutical industry. Hopefully, your children, if you choose to have them, will not suffer any non existent vaccine damage. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteCare to point out any facts that Brigitte got wrong?
DeleteOh I see, brave Anonymous pulls out the passive-aggressive form of the pharma shill gambit and flounces. Newsflash for you Anon, the vaccine damage stories are bullshit and more laypeople are getting that hence ignoring the tear-jerking, baby-shield testimonials at state congressional meetings and denials of claims at the NVICP.
DeleteHello, Travis. Are you having more identity problems? Have you now decided to identify as a mother of three grown children?
DeleteJust reading this. You mean almost $4,000,000,000.00 worth of compensation payouts for vaccine injury is bullshit? Wow. You mentioned denial - you definitely are in denial.
ReplyDeleteWhat does that have to do with a little boy who died from measles in Germany?
DeleteIf you mean the American National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, then I think you need to do a little math problem. Look at the table of the latest statistics for that program.
Go down to the last line that says "Grand Total", and get the total number of vaccines given during the time period covered by the table. It is 2,532,428,541 vaccines. Then go over and find the number of total compensated claims, which is 2054 compensated claims. Divide the first number by the second number.
What number did you get? What does it mean? Do you think a person will do better in a regular court room than in Vaccine Court with its lenient rules for evidence?
4 Billion? It's barely over 3 Billion....over 28 years....I guess the anti-vaxers wouldn't know the truth if it came up and bit them.
DeleteWhy do people get so worked up on vaccines? Shut the Fugg up and take your vaccine like a good little slave and eat whatever shite you want. This toddler had no immune system...if he/she had been on healthy food and was breast feeding..this would be unlikely. I'm willing to bet this toddler was not breast fed or had a good diet.
ReplyDeleteWow, aren't you a peach....what a way to blame the victim here.
DeleteHi, Travis. Are you still working though those identity issues? Perhaps you should speak to someone about that.
Delete