Clearly it is intended to get parents to ensure their children are vaccinated, even encouraging them to ignore the recommended vaccine programme for MMR and have the jabs earlier just so their children are 'protected'
But look at the figures carefully. Of the 113 cases, 29 are in the non vaccinated adults & teenagers and 27 are in the children under the vaccination age for the measles vaccine. This obviously gives a combined total of 56. Are we to assume then that the remaining 57 cases were in the vaccinated??
If this is the case, not quite the story it would seem then. At best the vaccine gives you 50/50 chance and at worst could mean you have a greater chance of contracting the disease.
I'm sure if the un-vaccinated figures were greater than those mentioned, they would show that proudly so as to really prove how 'effective' a vaccine is, but on these figures so far, that is not the case.
Bearing in mind the awful adjuvants that go into vaccines, is the risk worth it for a 50/50 outcome at best.
For another side to the Measles vaccine read Vaccine-nation by Andreas Moritz.
Measles on Merseyside: Outbreak 'largest since MMR introduced'
Parents are being advised to ensure their children are fully vaccinated
An outbreak of measles on Merseyside is the largest in the North West since the MMR vaccine was introduced, the Health Protection Agency (HPA) has said.
There are now 113 confirmed cases of the illness and another 43 cases are being looked at.
Twenty-eight people needed hospital in-patient treatment and three of these, two adults and a child, were extremely ill but have now recovered.
The HPA is urging parents to ensure children are fully vaccinated.
Two doses of the MMR vaccine give protection against measles, mumps and rubella.
The HPA declared an outbreak of the illness last month after six people needed hospital treatment.
'Measles spreading'
It said most cases were in children who had not been given the MMR vaccine - which was introduced in 1988 - and babies and toddlers too young to be vaccinated.
Approximately 29 of the confirmed cases are in teenagers and young adults who were not vaccinated as children and 27 cases are in children under the age of 13 months who were too young to be vaccinated.
Dr Roberto Vivancos, a specialist with the HPA's Cheshire and Merseyside Health Protection Unit, said: "Measles is highly infectious and anyone who has not previously been vaccinated is at risk when it gets into a community, as it has done here.
"In this outbreak we have seen measles spreading amongst unvaccinated children, teenagers and young adults and affecting infants and toddlers who are too young to be vaccinated.
"Our advice to teenagers and young adults is to arrange vaccination now. Speak to your family doctor. It's not too late.
"Our advice to parents is, arrange to have your children vaccinated regardless of their ages. If you are not sure if they have been immunised in the past, check with your family doctor."
It's always a good idea to find the original press release that is the source of any story reported secondhand. The HPA press release is very badly written but it contains this paragraph, which the story you've pasted omits:
ReplyDelete"The majority of the remaining cases (31) are in unvaccinated children aged between 13 months and five years. (For the sake of completeness, there have been nine cases in children aged 5-9 years and five cases in children aged 10-14)."
This brings the total accounted for up to 101 which leaves 12 who may or may not have been vaccinated.
It occurs to me that the remaining cases could be older adults, as the story doesn't mention these at all. It's possible that the vaccination status of some victims was unknown, especially if they were recent immigrants. In any event, the press release should have specified.
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