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Measles Parties!

millieshops — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 03:37:28 GMT

I absolutely do not understand people bringing their babies to these parties so that they get the disease and get immunity via the illness.

How is that safer than getting the vaccine?

May their children grow up healthy and live to know more science and understand statistics and odds better than their parents. I fear for those little ones. And I don't want them anywhere near schools, churches, parks, or any other public place where some poor child with a constraining disease needs to be.

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Annabellethecat66 — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 03:41:28 GMT

I remember a long time ago where parents had these when my daughters now 35 - 42 years old were very young.

They had all of their shots when they were supposed to have them.

I thought whomever attended these parties were dumb then and I still think it.

What if the child got really sick and/or died?

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SydneyH — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 03:44:18 GMT

I'm unfamiliar with this practice, but the discussion about vaccinations always turns very, very ugly.

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NoelSeven — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 03:45:45 GMT

Years ago that was done to make sure someone got the illness as a child not an adult.

That was BEFORE the vaccines, and it was more dangerous to get some things as an adult.

It' ridiculous to do it now instead of a vaccine.

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Irshgrl31201 — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 03:45:58 GMT

I have heard of chickenpox parties but never measles parties. I would think a parent that took their child to a measles party would need to lose custody of their child.

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kittymomNC — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 03:46:31 GMT

Is this for real? Do they not realize that there are possible complications of measles that could kill their babies? I'm sorry, but just how dumb can people be?

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jessa — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 03:53:43 GMT

I posted this earlier tonight on the Health & Wellness "Measles" thread. Maybe it's what the OPs talking about.

Glad to see this thread still active. Just saw this.............unbelievable.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/10/us-usa-measles-idUSKBN0LE05520150210

California warns against intentional measles exposures

(Reuters) - California health officials on Monday warned parents against intentionally exposing their children to measles, which could worsen an outbreak in the state.

In response to media inquiries about

so-called measles parties,

the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) said it did not have information on the parties or their frequency.

But it added that the disease, of which 107 cases have been confirmed since an outbreak began late last year, was serious.

"CDPH strongly recommends against the intentional exposure of children to measles as it unnecessarily places the exposed children at potentially grave risk and could contribute to further spread," said department spokeswoman Anita Gore.

In 2011, federal authorities issued stern warnings following media reports that vaccine-wary parents were trading chicken pox-laced lollipops by mail, in misguided efforts to build children's immunity through exposure to the virus.

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sylviahomeatlast — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 03:55:32 GMT

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september — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 03:58:15 GMT

Parties? To make your child sick?

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jessa — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 04:02:41 GMT

On 2/10/2015 september said: Parties? To make your child sick?

Yes the article I posted said some of the anti-vaxxers got more stupid ideas and think by exposing their children to the disease they'll get sick & then be immune. BIZARRO!

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jessa — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 04:05:41 GMT

There's a thread in the Health & Fitness board called

""Measles making a comeback?""

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millieshops — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 04:06:02 GMT

Sorry- Jezzebelle- I should have looked at health before I posted.

As someone who grew up before there were vaccines except for smallpox, I know how really ill innocent-sounding childhood disease can make you. I just can't imagine deliberately making a little one ill. Seems as if the risks of that are far greater than those from the vaccines.

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OnlyShopsOnline — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 04:07:52 GMT

I'd heard about that being done with chickenpox years ago. When my daughter was little, before the vaccine was available, a child in the neighborhood had chickenpox and my mother advised that I expose her. I didn't. She eventually got the chickenpox anyway. No way would I have done that on purpose.

Measles is so much worse. That is one dangerous disease that can cause serious, lifelong complications and even death. Any parent that does that, instead of allowing their child to get the vaccine, should be held criminally responsible.

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ivanatrump — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 04:08:11 GMT

When we were kids, parents took non school age children to homes with measles. Back then there wasn't a vaccine.

To do that now seems criminal. Why would anyone prefer their child be sick?

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NoelSeven — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 04:09:11 GMT

On 2/10/2015 Jezzebell said:
On 2/10/2015 september said: Parties? To make your child sick?

Yes the article I posted said some of the anti-vaxxers got more stupid ideas and think by exposing their children to the disease they'll get sick & then be immune. BIZARRO!

Stupid ideas is right, but then their original idea not to vaccinate wasn't too bright in the first place.

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september — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 04:09:53 GMT

Jezzebell, I often read the threads on that board but hadnt seen this one. Those poor kids!

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jessa — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 04:11:54 GMT

On 2/10/2015 millieshops said:
Sorry- Jezzebelle- I should have looked at health before I posted.

As someone who grew up before there were vaccines except for smallpox, I know how really ill innocent-sounding childhood disease can make you. I just can't imagine deliberately making a little one ill. Seems as if the risks of that are far greater than those from the vaccines.

No apology needed Millie! Not everybody reads all the boards, I just thought some posters might want to know about that thread, it's very in-depth on the topic.

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RetRN — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 05:56:01 GMT

So many unfit parents out there. Scary.

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sidsmom — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 07:36:32 GMT

For what it's worth but they haven't been wrong yet:

SNOPES is clasifiying this "FALSE".

"Public commentary concerning the outbreak became increasingly polarized, and the rumor about measles parties in California fueled debate over parental responsibility and public health." Then Fox ran with the assumption people were doing this...then another news outlet said something.....before you knew it, the Internet made it "Fact". It was all 'wildly exaggerated.

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Shorty2U — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 07:49:37 GMT

Sick, and I pray to GOD next it isn't Polio. SMH.