Just FYI, and really, the last on the subject.
Pertussis (Bordatella pertussis) (whooping cough)
This disease results in high morbidity and mortality in many countries every year. In the United States, 5000-7000 cases are reported each year. Incidence of pertussis has increased steadily since the 1980s. The incidence in 2002 was 3.01/100,000 when 8,296 cases of pertussis were reported.
In 2004, 25,827 cases of pertussis were reported in the United States.
Measles (Rubeola)
Rash, high fever, cough, runny nose, and red, watery eyes (lasts about a week)
Complications -- Diarrhea, ear infections, fatal pneumonia, fatal encephalitis, seizures, and death
Approximately 20% of reported measles cases experience one or more complications. These complications are more common among children under 5 years of age and adults over 20 years old.
Measles kills 800,000 people yearly in the poorer parts of the world.
The disease is highly contagious, and can be transmitted from 4 days prior to the onset of the rash to 4 days after the onset. If one person has it, 90% of their susceptible close contacts will also become infected with the measles virus.
The virus resides in the mucus in the nose and throat of the infected person. When that person sneezes or coughs, droplets spray into the air. The infected mucus can land in other people’s noses or throats when they breathe or put their fingers in their mouth or nose after handling an infected surface. The virus remains active and contagious on infected surfaces for up to 2 hours. Measles spreads so easily that anyone who is not immunized will probably get it, eventually.
Rubella
Birth defects if acquired by a pregnant woman: deafness, cataracts, heart defects, mental retardation, and liver and spleen damage (at least a 20% chance of damage to the fetus if a woman is infected early in pregnancy)
It is devastating to unborn babies, especially in the first trimester.
Pneumococcal pneumonia
Death (one of the most common causes of death in America from a vaccine-preventable disease)
Pneumococcus is in many people's noses and throats. Why it suddenly invades the body and causes disease is unknown.
Pneumococcal vaccine is very good at preventing severe disease, hospitalization, and death. However it is not guaranteed to prevent all symptoms in all people.
Pneumococcal Meningitis
High fever, headache, and stiff neck are common symptoms of meningitis in anyone over the age of 2 years. These symptoms can develop over several hours, or they may take 1 to 2 days. Other symptoms may include nausea, vomiting, discomfort looking into bright lights, confusion, and sleepiness. In newborns and small infants, the classic symptoms of fever, headache, and neck stiffness may be absent or difficult to detect, and the infant may only appear slow or inactive, or be irritable, have vomiting, or be feeding poorly. As the disease progresses, patients of any age may have seizures.
There are two vaccines against N. meningitidis available in the U.S. Meningococcal polysaccharide vaccine (MPSV4 or Menomune®) has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and available since 1981. Meningococcal conjugate vaccine (MCV4 or MenactraT) was licensed in 2005. Both vaccines can prevent 4 types of meningococcal disease, including 2 of the 3 types most common in the U.S.
Pneumococcal meningitis is associated with a high mortality rate. Vaccination is given at 2, 4, and 6 months. Streptococcus pneumoniae causes this meningitis and also causes many ear infections, so the vaccine may help prevent many ear infections as well.
Mumps
complications include Meningitis, inflammation of the testicles or ovaries, inflammation of the pancreas and deafness (usually permanent).
Meningococcal disease
Cause: multiple serogroups of Neisseria meningitidis
10%-14% of cases are fatal. Of patients who recover 11%-19% have permanent hearing loss, mental retardation, loss of limbs, or other serious sequelae.
N. meningitidis colonizes mucosal surfaces of nasopharynx and is transmitted through direct contact with large droplet respiratory secretions from the patients or asymptomatic carriers. Humans are the only host
Risk groups include infants and young children (for endemic disease) , refugees, household contacts of case patients, military recruits, college freshmen who live in dormitories, microbiologists who work with isolates of N. meningitidis , patients without spleens or with terminal complement component deficiencies, and people exposed to active and passive tobacco smoke.
HIB (Hemophilus influenzae strain B)
3%-6% of cases are fatal; up to 20% of surviving patients have permanent hearing loss or other long-term sequelae.
Transmitted by direct contact with a nasopharyngeal carrier or case patient
Risk groups are infants and young children, household contacts, and day-care classmates.
Hepatitis A
Adults will have signs and symptoms more often than children.
HAV is found in the stool (feces) of persons with hepatitis A.
HAV is usually spread from person to person by putting something in the mouth (even though it may look clean) that has been contaminated with the stool of a person with hepatitis A
Hepatitis A is the main reason for the signs posted in restaurants cautioning everyone to wash their hands to stop the spread of disease.
Viral Hepatitis B
About 30% of persons have no signs or symptoms. Signs and symptoms are less common in children than adults.
Chronic infection occurs in:
90% of infants infected at birth
30% of children infected at age 1 - 5 years
6% of persons infected after age 5 years
Death from chronic liver disease occurs in 15-25% of chronically infected persons.
Number of new infections per year has declined from an average of 260,000 in the 1980s to about 73,000 in 2003.
Estimated 1.25 million chronically infected Americans, of whom 20-30% acquired their infection in childhood.
Hepatitis C
Similar in most respects to Hepatitis B except that it is more likely to cause chronic hepatitis.
There is no vaccine for Hepatitis C.
Influenza
Diarrhea is not a symptom of influenza. The term "stomach flu" is a misnomer. True influenza is a pneumonia that kills 20,000 people each year in the United States, so you are not vaccinating against the illness that causes tummy upset.
The influenza vaccine includes the 3 strains of influenza virus predicted to be the most common in the coming flu season by the CDC. It is a killed virus and CANNOT cause influenza. Two to four weeks is needed to develop immunity.
The death rate for people over 65 is up to 100 times greater than that of people under 65.
**Influenza during the second trimester of pregnancy is the trigger for schizophrenia that will show up later in the life of the child.
**Influenza during childhood is a trigger for type 1 diabetes.
Flu vaccines can help prevent schizophrenia and diabetes!!!!
(Thank you Mark Eberle, Eddie Johnson and Jeff Cooney!!!)
This disease results in high morbidity and mortality in many countries every year. In the United States, 5000-7000 cases are reported each year. Incidence of pertussis has increased steadily since the 1980s. The incidence in 2002 was 3.01/100,000 when 8,296 cases of pertussis were reported.
In 2004, 25,827 cases of pertussis were reported in the United States.
Measles (Rubeola)
Rash, high fever, cough, runny nose, and red, watery eyes (lasts about a week)
Complications -- Diarrhea, ear infections, fatal pneumonia, fatal encephalitis, seizures, and death
Approximately 20% of reported measles cases experience one or more complications. These complications are more common among children under 5 years of age and adults over 20 years old.
Measles kills 800,000 people yearly in the poorer parts of the world.
The disease is highly contagious, and can be transmitted from 4 days prior to the onset of the rash to 4 days after the onset. If one person has it, 90% of their susceptible close contacts will also become infected with the measles virus.
The virus resides in the mucus in the nose and throat of the infected person. When that person sneezes or coughs, droplets spray into the air. The infected mucus can land in other people’s noses or throats when they breathe or put their fingers in their mouth or nose after handling an infected surface. The virus remains active and contagious on infected surfaces for up to 2 hours. Measles spreads so easily that anyone who is not immunized will probably get it, eventually.
Rubella
Birth defects if acquired by a pregnant woman: deafness, cataracts, heart defects, mental retardation, and liver and spleen damage (at least a 20% chance of damage to the fetus if a woman is infected early in pregnancy)
It is devastating to unborn babies, especially in the first trimester.
Pneumococcal pneumonia
Death (one of the most common causes of death in America from a vaccine-preventable disease)
Pneumococcus is in many people's noses and throats. Why it suddenly invades the body and causes disease is unknown.
Pneumococcal vaccine is very good at preventing severe disease, hospitalization, and death. However it is not guaranteed to prevent all symptoms in all people.
Pneumococcal Meningitis
High fever, headache, and stiff neck are common symptoms of meningitis in anyone over the age of 2 years. These symptoms can develop over several hours, or they may take 1 to 2 days. Other symptoms may include nausea, vomiting, discomfort looking into bright lights, confusion, and sleepiness. In newborns and small infants, the classic symptoms of fever, headache, and neck stiffness may be absent or difficult to detect, and the infant may only appear slow or inactive, or be irritable, have vomiting, or be feeding poorly. As the disease progresses, patients of any age may have seizures.
There are two vaccines against N. meningitidis available in the U.S. Meningococcal polysaccharide vaccine (MPSV4 or Menomune®) has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and available since 1981. Meningococcal conjugate vaccine (MCV4 or MenactraT) was licensed in 2005. Both vaccines can prevent 4 types of meningococcal disease, including 2 of the 3 types most common in the U.S.
Pneumococcal meningitis is associated with a high mortality rate. Vaccination is given at 2, 4, and 6 months. Streptococcus pneumoniae causes this meningitis and also causes many ear infections, so the vaccine may help prevent many ear infections as well.
Mumps
complications include Meningitis, inflammation of the testicles or ovaries, inflammation of the pancreas and deafness (usually permanent).
Meningococcal disease
Cause: multiple serogroups of Neisseria meningitidis
10%-14% of cases are fatal. Of patients who recover 11%-19% have permanent hearing loss, mental retardation, loss of limbs, or other serious sequelae.
N. meningitidis colonizes mucosal surfaces of nasopharynx and is transmitted through direct contact with large droplet respiratory secretions from the patients or asymptomatic carriers. Humans are the only host
Risk groups include infants and young children (for endemic disease) , refugees, household contacts of case patients, military recruits, college freshmen who live in dormitories, microbiologists who work with isolates of N. meningitidis , patients without spleens or with terminal complement component deficiencies, and people exposed to active and passive tobacco smoke.
HIB (Hemophilus influenzae strain B)
3%-6% of cases are fatal; up to 20% of surviving patients have permanent hearing loss or other long-term sequelae.
Transmitted by direct contact with a nasopharyngeal carrier or case patient
Risk groups are infants and young children, household contacts, and day-care classmates.
Hepatitis A
Adults will have signs and symptoms more often than children.
HAV is found in the stool (feces) of persons with hepatitis A.
HAV is usually spread from person to person by putting something in the mouth (even though it may look clean) that has been contaminated with the stool of a person with hepatitis A
Hepatitis A is the main reason for the signs posted in restaurants cautioning everyone to wash their hands to stop the spread of disease.
Viral Hepatitis B
About 30% of persons have no signs or symptoms. Signs and symptoms are less common in children than adults.
Chronic infection occurs in:
90% of infants infected at birth
30% of children infected at age 1 - 5 years
6% of persons infected after age 5 years
Death from chronic liver disease occurs in 15-25% of chronically infected persons.
Number of new infections per year has declined from an average of 260,000 in the 1980s to about 73,000 in 2003.
Estimated 1.25 million chronically infected Americans, of whom 20-30% acquired their infection in childhood.
Hepatitis C
Similar in most respects to Hepatitis B except that it is more likely to cause chronic hepatitis.
There is no vaccine for Hepatitis C.
Influenza
Diarrhea is not a symptom of influenza. The term "stomach flu" is a misnomer. True influenza is a pneumonia that kills 20,000 people each year in the United States, so you are not vaccinating against the illness that causes tummy upset.
The influenza vaccine includes the 3 strains of influenza virus predicted to be the most common in the coming flu season by the CDC. It is a killed virus and CANNOT cause influenza. Two to four weeks is needed to develop immunity.
The death rate for people over 65 is up to 100 times greater than that of people under 65.
**Influenza during the second trimester of pregnancy is the trigger for schizophrenia that will show up later in the life of the child.
**Influenza during childhood is a trigger for type 1 diabetes.
Flu vaccines can help prevent schizophrenia and diabetes!!!!
(Thank you Mark Eberle, Eddie Johnson and Jeff Cooney!!!)
posted by The Writer at 6:58 PM
6 Comments:
I thought that this subject was going to die soon!
Here is what a lot of decisions boil down to.
Do not make major choices based on emotional feelings of others. In this day and age there is no reason to accept opinions as fact. We have the internet for goodness sake. Ivestigate - investigate - investigate! Pay attention when you are investigating that the person has facts not feelings alone to back up their argument. The fact that the world is so overpopulated alone should be enough evidence that vaccines for the most part work! Do you know anyone PERSONALLY who has had a child die or suffer a disease from a vaccine? If it is a friend of a friend of a friend then please refer back to the game "telephone" that we played as children.
Most importantly - when making a decision that effects your child long term - take their feelings and welfare into consideration more than yours. For example you may not believe in circumsision (sp?) but how are you going to feel when you are sitting in the urologists office when he is eight screaming his head off because of plaque buildup. Unless of course you intend on spending a great deal of time cleaning it for him and training him to do it. I have a 5 year old and he does not remember a thing about his circ, his "dude" looks normal and he washes it by himself! WOO HOO!
Peace out!
Circumcision. Ahh.. a never ending debate. Will never see eye to eye on that one. Oh well. I like y'all anyway!
I don't care about eye to eye, but eye to missing foreskin might be nice.
= P
Ok so like I have to comment just one last time. Why did you decide to or not to immunize? It is what your doctor suggested? It is what you know from how your parents raised you? It is from your bunny/tree hugging friends who eat organic produce because greater advances in science and medicine are hurtful to the human race and a direct decendant of Satan?
Humans are SO emotionally attached to EVERYTHING! Go to www.snopes.com and the inboxer rebellion and see how we can effortlessly create hysteria!
Are you telling me that all of those are hoaxes? Holy cow! I'm happy to report that all the information I posted was either directly from the course-pack from my microbiology class or from some other website (either CDC or educational facility) but, I did take a class that taught us how to evaluate websites for validity and most sites that opposed vaccines did not meet the criteria. I found most were not trustworthy. Perhaps if more people knew which were worth listening to there wouldn't be such an issue.
I totally agree. It is easy to be misinformed - now more than ever it seems. You would think that the internet would improve our lives but it is possible to spread crap like peanut butter thanks to email!
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