Guest guest Posted July 30, 2006 Report Share Posted July 30, 2006 My favorite came from an NVIC conference. It ended up on the bumper of a carpentar's truck. "Forced Vaccinations, Not in America" -----Original Message-----From: EOHarm [mailto:EOHarm ]On Behalf Of Holly BortfeldSent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 12:19 PMEOHarm Subject: {Disarmed} RE: [sPAM?] Experts say don't ignore shots My first bumpersticker, many years back, was from Meryl Dorey’s org in Australia, it said “Investigate before you Vaccinate” (and below it was an Australia phone number which I cut off). A few later I had one from TAAP that said “Educate before you vaccinate”. The ones I have now say “mercury in vaccines cause autism” and “demand mercury free vaccines” and “there is still mercury in vaccines”. People follow my car into parking lots, drive thru’s and such. From: EOHarm [mailto:EOHarm ] On Behalf Of goldyer1Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 12:10 PMEOHarm Subject: Re: [sPAM?] Experts say don't ignore shots That would make a good bumper sticker too.>> Exactly- don't ignore them-> Investigate them!!!!> > [sPAM?] Experts say don't ignore shots> > > http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/15154903.htm?source=rss & channel=dfw_news> > Posted on Sat, Jul. 29, 2006 > > > > Experts say don't ignore shots> > By JAN JARVIS> STAR-TELEGRAM STAFF WRITER> > Susie Hudson was 11 months old when, to her parents' surprise, she broke out with chickenpox.> "We had no idea how she got it," said her mother, Hudson of Arlington. "Nobody at day care had it, and nobody in our home did."> The mystery was solved when Susie's dad, Hudson, came down with shingles, which is caused by the same virus as chickenpox.> Susie was a month short of getting the required immunization and was among the thousands of Texans each year who get diseases that could have been prevented by a vaccine. Although the chickenpox vaccine has been available since 1995, the number of cases appears to be climbing. With five months left in 2006, there have already been 6,553 cases of chickenpox in Texas, compared with 8,336 cases in all of 2005.> Public-health experts are watching for increasing cases of other preventable diseases:> The number of cases of pertussis, or whooping cough, has climbed from 121 in 1993 to 2,224 last year, with nine related deaths.> Mumps has been on the decline, with 25 cases last year, but recent outbreaks have heightened awareness of the need for adult booster shots.> Health officials also point to significant decreases in other illnesses since vaccines have been available.> The number of hepatitis A cases dropped to 461 last year from a high of 4,511 in 1997, when the vaccine was introduced.> Hepatitis B declined to 742 cases last year, compared with nearly 2,000 in 1998. The vaccine was introduced in 1981.> A new vaccine for human papillomavirus, which causes cervical cancer, is being recommended for females ages 11 through 26.> Demand continues to grow for a new vaccine for meningococcal meningitis, which infects 2,800 people a year and can cause brain damage, loss of limbs and death. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now recommend that doctors continue to immunize teenagers but hold off on vaccinating 11- and 12-year-olds.> Some health officials are concerned that childhood immunization efforts have been so successful that people tend to think that once-common illnesses have been wiped out.> "But these diseases are still present, and we can't just forget about them." said Dr. Podgore, an infectious-disease and pediatric specialist at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth. "These illnesses are always going to be out there."> What about Texas?> The public-health threat posed by vaccine-preventable diseases is exacerbated by Texas' immunization rate, which is one of the lowest in the country. Less than 79 percent of children ages 19 to 35 months are immunized, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services. Texas has improved in recent years, moving from 45th in the nation in 2003 to 41st in 2004.> Over the last decade, pertussis has become one of the most common vaccine-preventable diseases in Texas, said Dr. Greg Sonnen, a pediatrician at Baylor Family Health Center at Mesquite. Part of the explanation is that the whooping-cough vaccine protects people through early childhood but can wear off during the middle school years, he said.> The illness can spread quickly, especially among high school and college students who share close quarters at camps or in dorms. By the time teenagers realize they have more than a cold, there's not much doctors can do but prescribe antibiotics.> The greater health threat, however, is the way the disease affects people differently depending on their age.> "Teens or adults get a horrible, annoying cough that lasts 100 days," Sonnen said. "But little babies get deathly ill."> Chickenpox can be mild in children but more serious in adults, leading to pneumonia and encephalitis.> "A child gets uncomfortable," Sonnen said. "But if an adult gets chickenpox, it can be life-threatening."> A sick child can unknowingly spread the disease to adults, said Dr. Fisher, an Arlington pediatrician.> "By the time they have the diagnosis, often they have already been to Mc's and infected everyone who is not vaccinated," she said.> Once a population's vaccination coverage rate drops below about 70 percent, the risk of outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases rises precipitously, said Dr. Terk, a Keller pediatrician. rs living in a highly mobile culture can easily import diseases from other countries by a simple plane ride, he said.> A mumps outbreak that began in December at an Iowa college raised concerns after 11 infected students traveled around the country. No Texas cases were linked to the Midwest outbreak, though 27 mumps cases have been reported in Texas this year. Nationally, 2,597 mumps cases have been reported in 11 states, according to the CDC.> The Iowa epidemic was not the first mumps outbreak since the vaccine was introduced in 1967.> In 1991, 4,264 mumps cases were reported in the United States, the largest number in a single year, according to the CDC. In England and Wales, more than 50,000 cases, mostly among adolescents and young adults, were reported during 2004 and 2005.> New vaccines are being developed to target adolescents. Last year, a new tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis vaccine called Tdap was introduced for adolescents, said Terk, of the Cook Children's Physician Network.> Before that, "there was no pertussis immunization on the market that could be given to people older than 7 years," Terk said. "So the vast majority of the adult population now has little or no immunity to pertussis because the shots we got as infants no longer protect."> In her family practice in southwest Fort Worth, Dr. Kathy Alvarez encourages mothers of young children to get the whooping-cough shot.> "Babies aren't fully covered, so if we immunize the moms of these young children, we can hopefully prevent episodes of whooping cough in the babies," said Alvarez, a physician with Cityview Family Practice.> Doctors are also recommending flu shots for children.> "Children 6 months old to 5 years old have the highest complications and hospitalization rate, even higher than for people over 65," Podgore said. "There are some new intranasal vaccines that don't require injections, and it looks like they will have longer immunity, maybe a good couple of seasons."> This fall, many doctors will introduce the HPV vaccination to patients for the first time.> "We have had so much HPV. If you're doing Pap smears, you're seeing HPV," Alvarez said. "The vaccine is huge and definitely recommended for 11- to 26-year-olds, but the goal is at the 11-year-old visit."> Low-cost vaccinations against meningococcal meningitis are being offered through various programs around the state to make shots more accessible.> Since 2004, when the Be Wise - Immunize program was launched, 24,000 children have been vaccinated, program coordinator Kelcey said.> Immunizations are the single most important and successful public-health effort in the history of medicine, Terk said.> "Few would argue that immunizations have saved more lives than any other single advance in medicine," he said.> > ---------------------------------------------------------------> In the Know Immunization events > Six Flags Mall> 10 a.m.-6 p.m. July 31-Aug. 4> 2911 E. Division St., Arlington> Hispanic Wellness Fair> 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Aug. 5> Will complex, Fort Worth> Six Flags Mall> 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Aug. 7-12> 2911 E. Division St., Arlington> African American Health Expo> 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Aug 12> La Gran Plaza, 4200 South Freeway, Fort Worth> Birdville Coliseum> 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Aug. 14-18> 6108 Broadway Ave., Haltom City> La Gran Plaza> 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Aug. 21-26> 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Aug. 28-31> 4200 South Freeway, Fort Worth> Cost per child: $10. Bring immunization record.> Children under 2 receive free diapers with immunization.> SOURCE: Tarrant County Medical Society Alliance & Foundation> > ---------------------------------------------------------------> Tracking immunizations > Smallpox: Vaccine introduced in 1798. Last case reported in U.S. was in 1949. Routine vaccination ended in 1971. In 1980, scientists declared smallpox eradicated worldwide. > Polio: Injectable vaccine introduced in 1955; oral in 1962. Before vaccine, 50,000 U.S. cases annually. > Measles: Vaccine introduced in 1964. Before 1963, more than 3 million cases and 500 deaths annually.1 in 5 required hospitalization. In 2002, 44 cases. > Pertussis: Vaccine introduced in 1926. By 1976, declined to 1,010 cases. In 2003, more than 10,000 cases. > Diphtheria: Vaccine introduced in 1923. Before vaccine, 100,000 to 200,000 cases and 13,000 deaths each year. In 2002, one case. > Hepatitis B: Vaccine introduced in 1981. Before vaccine, about 12.5 million Americans infected. Since vaccine, infections have declined from about 450,000 in the 1980s to 7,996 in 2002. > Mumps: Vaccine introduced in 1967.Before vaccine, 200,000 cases per year. Epidemic in 1987, with 12,848 cases. Second dose added. Cases now number in the hundreds. > SOURCES: Trust for America's Health and Every Child By Two> Varicella: Chickenpox vaccine introduced in 1995. > Before vaccine, 4 million cases a year and 100 deaths.> > ---------------------------------------------------------------> Jan Jarvis, 817-548-5423> jjarvis@... > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------> Groups are talking. 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Guest guest Posted July 30, 2006 Report Share Posted July 30, 2006 on 7/30/06 12:28 PM, Cregar at diana.cregar@... wrote: My favorite came from an NVIC conference. It ended up on the bumper of a carpentar's truck. " Forced Vaccinations, Not in America " that reminds me- I met a chiropractor's daughter who had a sticker that said " question vaccinations " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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