Measles vaccines protect against
more than just measles. Here's how.
National Geographic,
by
Maya Wei-Haas
Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter,
11/3/2019 12:11:05 PM
Measles is alarmingly contagious: It’s spread through the air and can linger in a room for up to two hours after an infected person has left. The disease is responsible for more than a hundred thousand deaths each year among unvaccinated people.
What’s more, danger still lurks even for those who survive an outbreak.
Measles not only weakens your immune system in the short term, bouts with the virus seem to wipe your immune system's memory, causing the body to forget how to fight off things that you may have already conquered. For some people, this so-called immune amnesia may linger for months to years after an infection.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
millstream 11/3/2019 12:17:09 PM (No. 226086)
Nonsense...a hundred thousand deaths...lol. this hysteria is without scientific foundation
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 11/3/2019 12:28:52 PM (No. 226091)
A hundred thousand sounds high today. I know measles killed a lot of Civil War soldiers but so did dysentery, smallpox, TB, etc. back before anti-biotics.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
gorzabozo 11/3/2019 2:18:32 PM (No. 226148)
Gimme a break. Everyone I know from the '60s and '70s had the measles as a standard run-of-the-mill childhood disease and not one of them died. Hype and Hysteria everywhere ya turn these days. Sheesh.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
StormCnter 11/3/2019 2:23:49 PM (No. 226150)
Measles is a preventable disease. I don't understand the arguments against inoculation.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
LadyHen 11/3/2019 2:25:01 PM (No. 226151)
Measles is one of the most contagious diseases on the planet. My dd's pediatrician was adamant about vaccinating against this disease especially with the influx of unvaccinated coming over our borders. Over her 30 years experience she has done charitable work in India and Africa and seen a great deal of disease we just don't see anymore because of vaccination. Even here in the States she has treated children with partial blindness due to measles and also impaired limb function due to meningitis from measles and chicken pox. You can take risks with your own loved ones but I am more apt to put my faith in our doctors medical expertise and experience than some wikipedia experts on the internet who don't know myself or my children from Adam.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 11/3/2019 2:51:07 PM (No. 226168)
Wiping your immune system's memory is pretty scary, if true.
The 100,000 dead is worldwide, not in the USA. One online source shows that worldwide deaths from measles was 1.2 million per year in 1985, now down to about 100,000 due to widespread use of the vaccine.
Which folks here insist is dangerous. Compared to 1.2 million dead versus 100K dead? Seems like reducing mortality by a factor of 12 or inversely, eliminating 92% of the mortality from measles is pretty good.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Wendybird 11/3/2019 3:35:42 PM (No. 226200)
I subscribe to N.G. for the photos, and occasionally read part of an article, usually stopping when it gets to the inevitable part about Climate Change. I’m surprised that the article about Measles didn’t link it to climate change. Maybe it did, I haven’t read it.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 11/3/2019 3:51:53 PM (No. 226212)
#8, I started my subscription to NG in the 60s as a teen because of their wonderful space program coverage, and to learn about other countries around the world. I had already lived in Europe, and had a taste of travel, loved there articles and photos of places I had never visited, would likely never visit.
After about 40 or 45 years, I read the first commentary by a new editor for NG. It was all about how he was changing the direction of the magazine to stress the whole global warming danger, and that all future articles would be oriented towards "education" on the danger of global warming.
I immediately cancelled my over 4 decade subscription, and don't miss their lying propaganda one bit.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
grampus 11/3/2019 4:34:13 PM (No. 226246)
German measles (rubella) can be extremely dangerous. My younger sister had rubella when pregnant. The baby needed heart surgery withing weeks of birth. Also, it soon was discovered that the baby was deaf.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
LadyHen 11/3/2019 4:58:00 PM (No. 226273)
Apply the anti-vaxxers unscientific arguments and rhetoric to let's say car seat usage and see how utterly nonsensical it sounds. There actually is an article out there that does just that via satire. Google "Applying the anti-vaccine mentality to car seats" by a Dr. Lucy Hornstein and see for yourself.
I'd add to the article the silly argument that since nobody used real car seats in the 50's and 60's and obviously no children died in car accidents, except the ones that actually did, I mean why strap those poor sad little babies in those mean old car seats now. Just us overprotective helicopter parents believing all that scientifically proven hype and over reacting I am sure.
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It's not a crisis until you or your children get it.
About ten years ago I contracted whooping cough and don't know from where. It was horrible.
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