5 Babies Have Died From Whooping Cough in California...If Only We Could Have Prevented this Tragedy

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this just pisses me off.

living in fear and making dumb decisions out of ignorance. how many times do we have to explain that vaccines have not been shown to be linked with autism? and yet people are still not vaccinating their kids. how many ways do the folks associated with the original publication have to rescind their opinion and demonstrate that further studies don't back up the link? how many kids have to be maimed or killed from these awful (SHOULD BE ERADICATED) illnesses? what is wrong with people??

my fear for the kids in our country is this: as long as only small pockets of people aren't inoculating their kids, those kids should be safe, since the rest of the country is covered and won't spread the diseases around...BUT, if this community of un-vaccinated kids gets bigger and, if in our well- traveled, global community, they are exposed to kids from other parts of the un-vaccinated world, these nasty bugs will be shared among friends and we will have epidemics and lots of childhood death here. that were preventable. big kids might just get sick or end up with disabilities. but babies die. and all that sucks. and is preventable.

please read this article from cnn last week. it covers the whole vaccine scare controversy and there's some interesting added juice about how the spear-head MD from the original article that started everything was working for a competing vaccine company and was in it for greed, etc, etc.

the doc i scrubbed with today spent some time doing medical missions in africa and saw the damage that things like polio and measles and tetanus can cause. he said the middle bottom tooth of all the adults is removed so that WHEN they get lockjaw from tetanus, they can still get food and water through the gap. that is how prevalent/expected/normal it is there. this MD has been practicing in the US for 20 yrs and has NEVER seen a case here. we do not expect it. because we have forced it out of our community with vaccines. this generation has no idea what these deadly and mangling illnesses look like. check them out above. not pretty. and those are only a few of them.

please get your kids caught up with their vaccines. for their sake and for that of their friends, family members, classmates, neighbors, and, most importantly, my future children. :)

at the very least keep reading and asking questions about it. check your sources when you're reading "compelling evidence" against vaccines. here is the current cdc recommended vaccine schedule. it's big and complicated. you can also just go see your pediatrician. and i am happy to help find any info you need or do any research to answer questions/discuss these issues.