No Vaccination = Dead babies

[Tiger Wench]

The stupid moonbats are now officially killing their children with their stupid belief systems.  What's worse, their stupidity can cause a resurgance in diseases previously erradicated.  Add in all the unimmunized illegals and their TB babies flocking across the border into Cali, and you have a massive health crisis in a bankrupt state...

9th baby in California dies from whooping cough
By the CNN Wire Staff
September 17, 2010 3:20 a.m. EDT

(CNN) -- A ninth baby has died in California from whooping cough, health officials said Thursday.

All nine infants were under three months of age, the state's Department of Public Health said.

As of Tuesday, the state has recorded more illnesses due to whooping cough -- 4,017 -- than in any year since 1955, the department said.

Whooping cough, or pertussis, may look like just like a cold or a persistent cough in adults. But in infants, it can be fatal, doctors say.

Whooping cough was declared an epidemic in California in June. Peaks in cases of the highly contagious disease cycle every two to five years. California saw its last peak in 2005, with 3,182 cases, according to state health officials.

Vaccination role unclear in whooping cough outbreak

Some doctors relate this recent rise in cases to the parents who have shied away from vaccinating children due to fears, albeit unfounded, that there is a connection between vaccines and autism.

Dr. Jennifer Shu, a pediatrician at Children's Medical Group in Atlanta, Georgia, thinks this is a primary factor in the resurgence of whooping cough.

A 2009 study in Pediatrics found that parental refusal of whooping cough vaccination was associated with children's risk of pertussis infection. Previous research had shown a steady increase of parents who refuse immunization in the last decade.

[Token]

I think we should quarantine the state and seal it off from the rest of us normal people before it's too late. 

[Ranger12]

Monica calls these women "wonky granola" mothers.

[AUsweetheart]

I think we should quarantine the state and seal it off from the rest of us normal people before it's too late.

Let's do it quickly. Ogre is there.

[Ogre]

Let's do it quickly. Ogre is there.

Fuck you - I made it out!  You wouldn't know what to do without me.

[AUChizad]

There is an excellent Penn & Teller's Bullshit! about this topic from this season.

Seek it out.

[CCTAU]

Stop the influx of whooping cough carriers and we won't have this issue. I do not have an issue with folks refusing to vaccinate. It is their right and a greater number of children are having negative effects from vaccination. I know of a family that was not a "granola Mommy" and their youngest is a near vegetable  from an adverse reaction to his vaccinations.


We have done a great job in this country stamping out  disease. For the most part, the vaccinations we have used in the past have been somewhat safe and very effective. The issue is with the new forms of vaccinations. They are combining the vaccinations into one dose and it's causing more severe reactions than the old ones. I am glad my children are past that age for the most part. I definitely will not be giving my daughter or son the HPV vaccination. Just not enough info on it yet. Does that make me a granola daddy? If so, then crunch, crunch.