Comments on: Measles You Can Catch (But Not Autism)

By: The Persistence of Autism Myths

The Persistence of Autism Myths — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:53:54 +0000

[...] isn’t something you can catch (like measles) and it is not (as ABC News points out) something that can be cured. Myths have a way of [...]

By: “They are here, autism is here”—-Virginia Bovill

“They are here, autism is here”—-Virginia Bovill — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:02:02 +0000

[...] possible nor desirable.” Autism is lifelong; it’s neither something that you catch or that you can be cured from, and focusing too much on trying to cure autism can distract from the [...]

By: Vaccines and “Reasonable” Fear of Autism?

Vaccines and “Reasonable” Fear of Autism? — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:17:10 +0000

[...] of autism might seem “perfectly reasonable.” But autism is not something you can catch, like measles and there’s a tendency, because of fear and a bit even of panic, for people to shrug away and [...]

By: Be Careful What You Label Toxic

Be Careful What You Label Toxic — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:28:20 +0000

[...] fears that vaccination rates for the MMR have decreased in the UK and that the US has had its largest outbreak of measles. Just last week, a new study disputed a link between the MMR and autism; as more such studies have [...]

By: Mumps Outbreak in Vancouver

Mumps Outbreak in Vancouver — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:36:28 +0000

[...] 131 cases of measles in the US so far this year—–and now, as Discovering Biology in a Digital World reports, there’s an outbreak of mumps—116 confirmed cases and 74 suspected since February—in Vancouver. On average, there are ten cases a year. From CBSnews.ca: Two people from Alberta carried the mumps to a religious community near Agassiz that has a low rate of vaccinations, said Dr. Elizabeth Brodkin of the Fraser Health Authority. [...]

By: Regan

Regan — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:21:04 +0000

Thought that those who think of Measles as a purely benign disease might want to see what Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) looks like. This is some news from Germany, where is more widespread refusal, and more active outbreak of measles than here in the US. This is Micha, age 9, and Natalie, age 10 (wmv video), who caught wild-type measles as infants from child whose parents had decided against vaccinating him, but brought him into a doctor's practice when he developed a fever, which turned out to be an incubating case of measles. A number of too-young-to-be-immunized infants there that day caught the measles from this unvaccinated sick child. That was in 2000. Micha was 5 months old, Natalie was 11 months old. Micha developed SSPE in 2005. Natalie in the summer of 2007. Did the parents of the non-vaccinating family feel that their rights extended to putting these infants in contact with a child actively ill with a case of measles, because that is a potential. It has the ring of familiarity to San Diego.

By: Liz Ditz

Liz Ditz — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:37:59 +0000

From An Open Letter to Parents Who Don’t Vaccinate:

UPI reported that up to 50 children are quarantined, including the Baldwin Academy students, the SDCC students, and unvaccinated students at the Murray Callan Swim School (which has classes for infants as young as three months).

You parents who were so afraid of vaccination — how do you feel about the illnesses your fear caused? How about the financial hardship for parents whose children are excluded from school? If I were a parent in the infant program at the Baldwin Academy, I’d be furious. I am sure that the Baldwin Academy isn’t rebating tuition for the weeks the infant program is closed — the parents of those infants are either suffering financial loss by staying home from work, or paying double for child care.

I’d like to see the promoters of vaccine-preventable illness — Jenny McCarthy, TACA, AoA, Generation Rescue — establish a fund to compensate families who suffered financial or health losses from other’s failure to vaccinate.

By: Emily

Emily — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:17:00 +0000

And guess where the sarcasm is. Why there, in that response. That would be why I was referring to my own comments, Center of the Universe.

By: Moi

Moi — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:50:47 +0000

Your first response quoted Me.

By: Emily

Emily — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:05:10 +0000

Moi, I was referring to my own comments.

Chuck, touche. Touche.