Surprise, Surprise, Anti-Vacciners to Blame for Sudden Rise of Measles

[Kade]

http://open.salon.com/content.php?cid=11251

Well, I called this crap.

Nice guys. I know there are a few of you wingnuts here who are against vaccinations.

Enjoy.

 

[tropicangela]

This doctor Amy's license expired I've been told.

Find me her valid license information and I will apologize. I know she's not licensed... she has been investigated. "She" goes around the internet arguing with people who use alternative therapies. Probably paid for by some big organization.

Don't be a sheeple Please check your sources.

 

[Cowlesy]

I have to say I am glad I received all my vaccinations.

I wouldn't call those who don't believe in "wingnuts", but would hope for the safety of their children's health they'd at least consider getting core vaccinations against stuff like Polio and Measles.

To each their own I guess.

 

[Kade]

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Alright, I'm all about sources... if she isn't a doctor, than she already has a check mark next to the "dishonest" character trait...

 

[Kade]

I just called a Shannon M. Kiely at Boston University, who directed me to a George Snowdon, Director of Human Resources, who won't release the information...

As far as I can tell, there is a growing movement in the whacky tacky forums that she is not real, but from what I gather, her credentials have been verified numerous times... by different organizations.


If she does not practice, that is one thing, she appears that she does have a degree in Medicine...

 

[tropicangela]

Go after "Dr. Amy".

According to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine her license expired in 2003. You can file a complaint concerning her activity dispensing medical advice on her website via email for a fee (this is practicing medicine without a license), holding herself out to be a doctor without currently being licensed and being listed as a consulting physician on the website iemily.com which gives advice to teens and parents.

Although a single complaint would be investigated, more complaints would signal a greater degree of concern.

So forward this all across this great nation to call the TOLL FREE number and register a complaint.

Too bad her license wasn't revoked, but we can't have everything. Who knows, maybe the great state of Massachusetts will frown on Ask Dr. Amy (http://www.askdramy.com/) and revoke it or put a strike against her that can then be used as an additional weapon.

Board of Registration in Medicine

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Board of Registration in Medicine
200 Harvard Mill Square, Suite 330
Wakefield, MA 01880

Phone: (781) 876-8200
Fax: (781) 876-8383

Consumer Hotline: (800) 377-0550

 

[tropicangela]

I just called a Shannon M. Kiely at Boston University, who directed me to a George Snowdon, Director of Human Resources, who won't release the information...

As far as I can tell, there is a growing movement in the whacky tacky forums that she is not real, but from what I gather, her credentials have been verified numerous times... by different organizations.


If she does not practice, that is one thing, she appears that she does have a degree in Medicine...

Alright so I was a bit worked up She is annoying though. Anyway, she could be a doctor, who really knows. But her license expired from what I have been told. The disinformation campaign is so frustrating. If anyone can understand that, you liberty lovers can!

 

[DrAmy31415]

What's this tomfoolery and shenanigans that I'm hearing?

 

[freelance]

There WAS no MMR vaccine when I was young. We just got the childhood diseases, increased our immunity to disease and my generation doesn't seem to dropping dead of fatal diseases at the alarming rate of you youngsters (anecdotal data only). Try that on for size. We also didn't take ritilin, and we grew into productive adults--all without the help of 24/7 news, the Internet, cell phones and text messaging.

 

[angelatc]

Yes, but the number of deaths from MMR has decreased since we started vaccinating the general population.

Regardless, I do not think it should be mandatory.

 

[rpfan2008]

http://whale.to/

 

[pinkmandy]

Yes, but the number of deaths from MMR has decreased since we started vaccinating the general population.

Regardless, I do not think it should be mandatory.

Myth. You bought it.

Deaths started decreasing BEFORE the introduction of the vaccine.

Deaths from all of these illnesses started decreasing rapidly with the advent of better sanitation and nutritious foods. If you look at the US, you seldom hear of a death when a kid gets measles. In a third world country where the drinking water isn't so great or good nutrition is a luxury, kids still die frequently.

Also children who are immune compromised are more likely to die. Like the HIV children in Africa.

 

[tropicangela]

http://www.healthsentinel.com/graphs.php

http://www.healthsentinel.com/graph...tegories&id=6&event=graphcats_print_list_item

 

[rpfan2008]

http://www.healthsentinel.com/graphs.php

http://www.healthsentinel.com/graph...tegories&id=6&event=graphcats_print_list_item

This graph shows the decrease in mortality from measles from 1838 to 1978. What is striking is the massive decrease in mortality from measles prior to the use of the measles vaccine. The decrease was from a high of 70.49 per 100,000 down to 0.11 per 100,000 in 1968 when the measles vaccine came into use.

ThankYou vry muchh !!

 

[tropicangela]

Eat your vitamin A and research nosodes. Find a doctor who has them near you.

Also, check out http://www.vierascheibner.com

 

[MinorityView]

This site has a lot of good info on vaccines and diseases:

http://insidevaccines.com/wordpress/

Here is an article about measles:
http://insidevaccines.com/wordpress/2008/02/02/measles-the-grim-reality/

And another, covering the fascinating story of what doctors thought would happen once they started vaccinating for measles:
http://insidevaccines.com/wordpress/2008/05/20/for-the-good-of-the-herd/

 

[pacelli]

Among the 131 measles patients, 123 were U.S. residents, of whom 99 (80%) were aged <20 years… 112 [patients] (91%) were unvaccinated or had unknown vaccination status. Among these 112 patients, 95 (85%) were eligible for vaccination, and 63 (66%) of those were unvaccinated because of philosophical or religious beliefs.”

Let's take a look at these numbers.

So we're to believe that the 19 vaccinated people also contracted measles? Seems like the vaccine didn't work.

Also, 112 (91% of those in the report) were 'unvaccinated or had unknown vaccination status'. Does this mean that they are grouping together people who they failed to test for the vaccine titers along with those that they actually tested for titers? 'Unknown vaccination status' means that they did not test for titers.

Of the 112 unvaccinated or unknown vaccination status, we're told that 95 (85%) of them were eligible for vaccination, but this group is specifically separated from the vaccine objector group. We know for a fact that those 63 (66%) in the religious/philosophical objection group were not vaccinated.

Yet the CDC says: "These importation-associated cases have occurred largely among school-aged children who were eligible for vaccination but whose parents chose not to have them vaccinated…”.

So where's the "unknown vaccination status" in the CDC's statement? Why is the CDC not requiring each case to be tested for titers? Could it be that those in the "unknown vaccination status" group all had been vaccinated, and still got measles?