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Doctors and medical experts are concerned about a new trend taking place on Facebook. Parents are trading live viruses through the mail in order to infect their children.
The Facebook group is called "Find a Pox Party in Your Area." According to the group's page, it is geared toward "parents who want their children to obtain natural immunity for the chicken pox."
On the page, parents post where they live and ask if anyone with a child who has the chicken pox would be willing to send saliva, infected lollipops or clothing through the mail.
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In rare cases children can die from not getting vaccinated. Dr. Jacobson said that he had a child in the hospital that died at 14 months due to chicken pox pneumonia.
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If a vaccinated person does get varicella, it is usually a very mild case with fewer lesions (usually less than 50, which are frequently not vesicular), mild or no fever, and a quicker recovery. Persons with rash, however, are infectious.
CDC Q&A on Chickenpox Vaccine
A breakthrough infection is defined as a case of wild-type varicella that occurs in a person more than 42 days after vaccination following exposure to wild-type virus. A breakthrough infection is usually mild; patients typically have low or no fever, develop fewer than 50 skin lesions, and experience a shorter duration of illness compared to unvaccinated individuals with natural infection.
CDC FAQ on Chickenpox
The problem is that a proposed ban might include thiomersal, also known as thimerosal, a mercury compound used to prevent contamination and extend the shelf life of vaccines, many scientists say. It is used in about 300 million shots worldwide, against diseases including flu, tetanus, hepatitis B, diptheria and meningitis.
"Not being able to use mercury is not a viable option," said David Wood, a WHO vaccines expert.
Wood said there isn't a viable alternative to thiomersal at the moment. If banned, pharmaceuticals would likely have to switch to preservative-free vaccines, which would complicate the supply chain and vaccination campaigns in poor countries, since the injections would have a much shorter shelf life. Costs would also spike since manufacturers would need to reconfigure their factories.
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Concerns were also heightened after the U.S. decided to largely remove thiomersal from many injections as a precautionary measure in the 1990s. Numerous studies have found no sign the mercury compound is risky but many anti-vaccine groups still believe it may be linked to autism and other health problems.
KPHO: Talk of treaty ban on mercury concerns scientists
Originally posted by jrmcleod
That Facebook page is horrendous.
Look, i'm all for natural immunity, but sending used lollipops and saliva in the mail to feed to your child is outrageous and should be made illegal.
I'm not keen on vaccinating, but i will for the more major diseases...that page should be brought down and the parents prosecuted.
Your child could catch anything from god-knows who!
Originally posted by bacci0909
Originally posted by jrmcleod
That Facebook page is horrendous.
Look, i'm all for natural immunity, but sending used lollipops and saliva in the mail to feed to your child is outrageous and should be made illegal.
I'm not keen on vaccinating, but i will for the more major diseases...that page should be brought down and the parents prosecuted.
Your child could catch anything from god-knows who!
Not to be harsh, and I'm not judging the rest of your political spectrum of views.. but it's statements like these that are allowing for the erosion of our personal liberties. No, it should not be made illegal, and no, parents should not be prosecuted. Nobody is forcing you, or anybody else for that matter, to take part in what that page is offering. It's called freedom
"Doctors have throughout time made fortunes on killing their patients with their cures. The difference in psychiatry is that it is the death of the soul." – R.D. Laing, MD.
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"We were told that there was a great smallpox epidemic coming to the land and all the children must be vaccinated. My grandfather used to say that the white man’s vaccination makes you blind and if you are to look after the cattle you must not go to the trading store to get your vaccination. Inspectors used to come and check each child for signs of vaccination. Our grandmother used to give us great pain in order to save our spiritual eyes. Grains of maize would be heated up and pushed against the skin of the child, and so when the schools inspectors came he saw the blisters and assumed the child had been vaccinated…and I noticed that school children in mission schools who had been vaccinated for smallpox or measles could not see spiritual entities at all. A flying saucer would fly through the sky at great speed and be seen by many men & women but the children who had been vaccinated would see nothing and I noticed this hundreds of times."—Credo Mutwa
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"The time will come - and it may not be far off - when quite different tendencies will come up at a congress like the one held in 1912 and people will say: It is pathological for people to even think in terms of spirit and soul. 'Sound' people will speak of nothing but the body. It will be considered a sign of illness for anyone to arrive at the idea of any such thing as a spirit and - you can be quite sure of it - a medicine will be found for this. At Constantinople the spirit was made non-existent. The soul will be made non-existent with the aid of a drug. Taking a 'sound point of view', people will invent a vaccine to influence the organism as early as possible, preferably as soon as it is born, so that this human body never even gets the idea that there is a soul and spirit.
The two philosophies of life will be in complete opposition. One movement will need to reflect how concepts and ideas may be developed to meet the reality of soul and spirit. The others, the heirs of modern materialism, will look for the vaccine to make the body 'healthy', that is, makes its constitution such that this body no longer talks of such rubbish as soul and spirit, but takes a 'sound' view of the forces which live in engines and in chemistry and let planets and suns arise from nebulae in the cosmos. Materialistic physicians will be asked to drive the souls out of humanity."
The Fall of the Spirits of Darkness - Oct 7, 1917 (lecture 5)
Originally posted by ReluctantBlossom
reply to post by bacci0909
But they ARE forcing other to take part in it by sending it through the mail. It exposes everyone from the carrier that picks up that package, transports that package and every piece of mail it touches along the way...not to mention all the people that THOSE people and packages come into contact with.
You should be free to build a natural immunity if you can, but you don't have the right to carelessly expose others in such a reckless way by intentionally sending an infectious biological agent through the mail.
Plus that's just gross
edit on 10/28/2011 by ReluctantBlossom because: add
Originally posted by ReluctantBlossom
You should be free to build a natural immunity if you can, but you don't have the right to carelessly expose others in such a reckless way by intentionally sending an infectious biological agent through the mail.
Originally posted by ReluctantBlossom
reply to post by bacci0909
But they ARE forcing other to take part in it by sending it through the mail. It exposes everyone from the carrier that picks up that package, transports that package and every piece of mail it touches along the way...not to mention all the people that THOSE people and packages come into contact with.
Originally posted by Planet teleX
reply to post by bacci0909
The child isn't old enough to decide if they want the disease for their self yet (in any form, including vaccine).
It should be illegal to enforce anything on minors.
Originally posted by DerepentLEstranger
funny how they want to accuse these parents of being bio-terrorists, when big pharna is the major bio terrorist and chemwar-mongerers on the planet. such obvious projection by the psychopaths, are they becoming stupider? or are we becoming more aware?
Originally posted by ReluctantBlossom
But they ARE forcing other to take part in it by sending it through the mail. It exposes everyone from the carrier that picks up that package, transports that package and every piece of mail it touches along the way...not to mention all the people that THOSE people and packages come into contact with.
You should be free to build a natural immunity if you can, but you don't have the right to carelessly expose others in such a reckless way by intentionally sending an infectious biological agent through the mail.
Originally posted by jrmcleod
That Facebook page is horrendous.
Look, i'm all for natural immunity, but sending used lollipops and saliva in the mail to feed to your child is outrageous and should be made illegal.