As measles cases rise, unvaccinated teens secretly receive shots
Measles cases are popping up across the country in places where there are pockets of vaccine skepticism. As this is happening, some unvaccinated teens are going against their anti-vax parents and secretly getting shots themselves. NBC News Medical Writer Dr. Shamard Charles spoke to one teen about her process of getting vaccinated.
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Sad when kids have to be their own parents.
I've always wondered how many of the parents didn't get all their shots when they were kids, I'm betting most of them did.
Pretty sad when they get all politicized and don't want their kids vaccinated, and the kids are right, they have the right to get vaccinated and not get hospitalized or die because mom and dad want to play games with THEIR lives.
Have you heard the latest excuse? By getting these dangerous diseases, it increases your immune system against cancer.
There is no way that any antibodies against any viruses will mean a thing to cancer, if it did we'd only need one general shot for viruses (since they're all the same) and there'd be a vaccine against cancers.
The cancer I (and the Top Chef contestant, Fatima Ali, that died from it, recently) had would not have been prevented by a vaccine as it is a switching of pieces of chromosomes that causes it. Chromosome 11 and chromosome 22 decide they will party and switch pieces of each other and boom, you have a Ewing's tumor. There is no known reason for why those chromosomes decide to party and switch pieces and no indication that any single person is pre-disposed to getting it. It is a completely random type of cancer with only 2 stages: 1) sitting in one place (mine), or 2) spreading like a wildfire throughout the body (Fatima Ali).
There is one vaccine that I tend to be mostly against and that is the Flu vaccine as it is really a hit or miss type of vaccine as it is made before the flu hits and they never get the particular strain predicted accurately that they need to protect against.
So true
Also sad when parents are ignorant enough to endanger their kids.
Dear Friend Gordy: Endanger both their and other kids and citizens.
One reason why you don't read about pandemics so much these days is the stunning success of vaccines.
When pandemics break out, it is almost without exception in places where vaccinations are not administered because unavailable, culturally discouraged and/or too expensive.
The problem with the urban legends of mercury poisoning causing autism and such, long dis-proven by incontrovertible cross corroborated objective third party studies , is that not only are those not vaccinated at unnecessary risk. So is everyone around them who can catch what they have.
My arm is a pin cushion.
My conscience is clear.
To those who place their children and others in the line of disease fire I say, "Don't be a drama queen. Roll up your sleeve and take that vaccine".
Enoch, Headed to the Nearest Casino One Armed Bandit.
I got most of the childhood diseases before the vaccines were available. Not polio, tho. I would have to look it up, but I think the polio and small pox vaccines were available in 1962 when I was born. MMR wasn't because I got all three of those before I even went to first grade.
Then right before I started school, the local school district had a vaccination clinic and I got the MMR. I remember getting the small pox vaccine at the doctor's office, tho, because my mom couldn't prove I already got the vaccine so I had to do it all over again.
I have the scar from the multi vaccine but I distinctly remember watching the nurse(S) putting 2 drops of vaccine on sugar cubes
when we were lined up in the basement of the primary school building and everyone wanted more sugar cubes,
and they handed out untreated left over sugar cubes once everyone was vaccinated.
I have my small pox scar, but it was soon "eradicted" after I got mine. My kids never got one. However, my son recently rec'd one. He was home for Christmas and it was starting to scab over.
I never received the small pox one. I was a little after the cut off when they said it was no longer needed.
Indeed. Imagine hearing if there was a smallpox pandemic today. Without vaccines, that may very well have been the case. The same for any number of otherwise preventable diseases.
That would be epidemics. But you have a point.
Willful ignorance of people who succumb to such fear mongering and paranoia only exacerbates the problem.
As is your body. Thank you vaccines.
Common sense can skip a generation so sometimes they have to
A good example of teenage kids being smarter than their parents. I wonder how those anti-vax parents feel about the anti-polio vaccine? Didn't Sabine develop the vaccine in pill form? What if the parents would rather see their kids live out their lives in iron lungs rather than be protected.
I thought Sabine developed the sugar cube. I could be wrong
Sorry, it's Sabin, not Sabine.