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[KHTS] – Los Angeles County Health officials have identified the first recent case of measles in the Santa Clarita Valley.

The exposure reportedly occurred at McRory Pediatric Services, which is located at 28212 Kelly Johnson Parkway, said Dr. Jeff Gunzenhauser, the interim public health officer for Los Angeles County’s Department of Public Health.

[Click here] for information on Measles from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.

“The main message is that, this outbreak of measles is continuing,” he said. “The number of cases we’re seeing now is not as intense, but we’re continuing to see a few.”

There have been no other recent reported cases in the Santa Clarita Valley, he added, and no other health centers are believed to have been affected, based on their investigations so far.

Kindercare officials investigated a potential exposure last week, but officials cleared the patient in that case and determined the child did not have measles.

“What we’re doing is working with the pediatric office and identifying anyone who could have been in contact during these two days,” he said, referring to the dates of exposure in the office, which were Feb. 24-25.

“We’re looking at whether they’ve been vaccinated,” he said, “and if they haven’t been, then they’re excluded from coming back until (March 18).”

One of the most common questions asked after a reported case is, “If I go in there now, is there some chance I could get measles — and the answer is ‘no’” said Gunzenhauser.

measlesshotMeasles is only contagious from people to people, and it doesn’t linger in the environment — it does linger in the air for a couple of hours, but this was a week ago, he said.

There’s a four-day period before skin rashes appear that an infected person is contagious, he added.

“We do a couple of things when we have a case — we ask them, during that period, about everything they did,” he said, “and and any contact we can identify, we reach out to.”

No other locations were mentioned as possible sources of concern for Los Angeles County health officials in the Santa Clarita Valley.

“Part of the message is that people think, ‘Well, if it doesn’t happen where I exist… that kind of assessment really doesn’t provide safety,” he added.

There have been 28 cases in Los Angeles, and about 5-10 have been kids less than 12 years old, he added.

“I’m pointing that out, because that’s the group we’re trying to protect — pregnant woman, children under 1, and those with weakened immune system,” he said, listing those who couldn’t be vaccinated.

 

 

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  1. Janet Lopez Janet Lopez says:

    Hermy Bastian Vanessa Vargas

  2. Is it a kid? Did they go to school?

  3. Is it a kid? Did they go to school?

  4. Rachael Riccio Ruhland

  5. Rachael Riccio Ruhland

  6. Oh wonderful….hide your kids!

  7. Oh wonderful….hide your kids!

  8. Greg Brown Greg Brown says:

    Sure glad my kids have vaccienes. Sheesh!

  9. Greg Brown Greg Brown says:

    Sure glad my kids have vaccienes. Sheesh!

  10. Gabe Yanez Gabe Yanez says:

    Sweet all the crime now the measles!!!!!

  11. Gabe Yanez Gabe Yanez says:

    Sweet all the crime now the measles!!!!!

  12. Jenn Jenn Jenn Jenn says:

    Great. I was there with my little one. Thank goodness not on those dates. People need to vaccinate their freaking children.

    • Actually, the ones who are vaccinated are usually the first to get the disease. Do your research!

      • Lauryn Jones says:

        it even says on the CDC’s website that the MMR vaccine is a LIVE VIRUS. So even if you do get your kid vaccinated your child is now putting others at risk because that vaccine sheds. You can argue that it’s only a small dose of the virus but that’s BS. It only takes one cough or one sneeze to catch a cold from someone so don’t tell me you can’t catch the measles from someone who just got the vaccine for it and is walking around with a live virus. Get your facts straight. The unvaxxed aren’t to blame. Sick kids get kids sick. Healthy kids don’t.

    • Jenn Jenn Jenn Jenn says:

      Loretta Rizzo actually vaccines prevent disease. That’s kinda a basic concept.

    • Loretta….that is simply not true! VACCINATE!!!! First whooping cough, now measles and a virus that mimics polio has been reported in the US!!! It’s ridiculous….we are lucky enough to have vaccines…

    • Jenn Jenn Jenn Jenn says:

      Tara Higgins-Brown thank you! I couldn’t agree more. I don’t know where this Loretta girl gets her info.

    • I’m an RN and work with great pediatricians and have done my own research and not to mention many papers/research on this subject. I am blown away that people are still standing by “the anti vaccine” craze…..the proof is in front of your eyes!!! It was predicted this would happen…..and it is. It will only get worse! I would love to talk to parents that watched their kids die of polio many years ago and hear what they have to say about refusing a cure!!!!

    • Jenn Jenn Jenn Jenn says:

      Tara Higgins-Brown I’m also an RN but Peds is not my thing! Though I’m studying to be an FNP and I’m doing Peds next semester so I can’t wait to get more Peds knowledge. RNs are smart though ;) hehe

    • I actually work in labor & delivery/postpartum/nursery…..so the vaccine topic is big for us:) educating new parents, etc. curious to see if % of “refusal” changes in the coming months. Honestly most vaccinate….

    • Katie Tee Katie Tee says:

      People are so ignorant and stupid! Why put your own children at risk along with others by not vaccinating. Personally I think it’s a form of negligence!

    • Agreed. Ladies heard immunity. I couldn’t go to Disneyland because of the outbreak because I am one of the small percentage that the immunization doesn’t work We need those to vaccinate so for those of is who don’t aquire the immunity aren’t at risk and FYI even though my kids wanted to go to Disney so bad we didn’t because I work with newborn. I take the health of not only my children but other people children seriously.

    • Alright my work peep!!! Lol:) my birthday twin too!!!! Hahahaha

    • Ann Perdue Ann Perdue says:

      Agreed! a few years back when everyone vaccinated you didn’t really here about these diseases so close to home. You knew about them but didn’t really have to worry so much. back then ppl didn’t question vaccines and I myself don’t remember ever hearing about these entering the US.. Now that has changed since a lot of ppl don’t vaccinate.. and now BAM these diseases are now on the rise in our cities. Makes you think!

    • Loretta Rizzo, please provide links to peer-reviewed scientific studies that support your claim.

  13. Jenn Jenn Jenn Jenn says:

    Great. I was there with my little one. Thank goodness not on those dates. People need to vaccinate their freaking children.

  14. Fanny Morales Lescano-Becker Kristen Becker!!

  15. Juanita Marina Oropeza Arthur Rivera

  16. April Jansen April Jansen says:

    Happy to know my kids are vaccinated!!

  17. April Jansen April Jansen says:

    Happy to know my kids are vaccinated!!

  18. Well as long as the vaccinated what are u worried about lol

    • Maybe they have little ones who aren’t old enough to receive the vaccine or their child may have cancer or some other disease and may be immunocompromised.

    • Julie Gauer Julie Gauer says:

      People who have kids under 5.

    • Yeah but either way if the vaccinated you can contract it. It seems like a scare tactic. I agree with the measles vaccine but not any others.

    • Did you even bother to read the article? “I’m pointing that out, because that’s the group we’re trying to protect — pregnant woman, children under 1, and those with weakened immune system,” he said, listing those who couldn’t be vaccinated.

    • Infants DON’T get vaccinated that young. So I have a feeling their parents have a lot to be worried about. Also it has been reported that adults vaccinated back in a certain earlier time period of the vaccine may have had a dose that was less effective. So those people would obviously be worried too.

    • And that makes no sense… A scare tactic? An essentially eradicated disease comes back because people aren’t getting vaccinated when they can be and are putting those who aren’t able to at risk and it’s a scare tactic? I don’t get it.

    • It does If u read vaccine statistics. More deaths from vaccines than in vaccinated. They make money of getting vaccines. U think a 3 year old should get a HIV vaccine? I you look at the vaccine list for children it’s gone from 5 vaccines to 25 before 5 years.

  19. I hope they inform us of the school the kiddo attends

  20. I hope they inform us of the school the kiddo attends

  21. Anita Colon-Dowdy Haydee Espinoza

  22. Johnny Valle Johnny Valle says:

    Jessica Razo Contreras

  23. Johnny Valle valiendo madre

  24. Weird question
    If your kid has been vaccinated
    Chance of still getting measles etc?

  25. David Powers David Powers says:

    I started an HPV epidemic in SCV. Where’s my article? Thanks a lot Obama.

  26. Tami Fox Tami Fox says:

    Be careful of the recently vaccinated. http://www.cnbc.com/id/102473744

    • Yep. Shaking my head at people who just don’t understand.

    • Only if you are immune compromised or not vaccinated, that was the point of the article, not to avoid the recently vaccinated.

    • Well they are injected with the disease and then the body has to fight it off. I’m sure they could pass it along the way. Crazy

    • Not necessarily, Joan, vaccines are either killed or attenuated (weakened) virus. This way your body can develop the necessary antibodies to the virus, but not develop the illness. I recommend understanding the mechanism of action before commenting on the viability of spreading illness.

    • Not necessarily, Joan, vaccines are either killed or attenuated (weakened) virus. This way your body can develop the necessary antibodies to the virus, but not develop the illness. I recommend understanding the mechanism of action before commenting on the viability of spreading illness.

    • My daughter has Primary Immunodeficiency and she is not to be around anyone that has received the vaccine in the last 2 weeks

    • My daughter has Primary Immunodeficiency and she is not to be around anyone that has received the vaccine in the last 2 weeks

    • Tami Fox Tami Fox says:

      Anyone can contract the virus from the recently vaccinated. It’s just dangerous for the immune compromised to contract the virus.

    • There is no evidence that the attenuated virus can pass from person to person. Tami talk to a pediatrician, they will tell you the same.

    • “We conclude that, in this particular outbreak, the risk of a close contact becoming infected by vaccinated patients was small, but present.”

      http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21983359

    • Tami Fox Tami Fox says:

      BTW, it is my understanding that the infected child was indeed vaccinated.

    • Tami Fox Tami Fox says:

      BTW, it is my understanding that the infected child was indeed vaccinated.

    • While no symptomatic cases were reported among the household contacts (n = 164) of vaccinated mumps patients (n = 36), there were cases with serological evidence of asymptomatic infection among vaccinated household contacts (9 of 66 vaccinated siblings). For two of these siblings, the vaccinated index patient was the most probable source of infection.

      You left out the fact that those were asymptomatic cases.

    • While no symptomatic cases were reported among the household contacts (n = 164) of vaccinated mumps patients (n = 36), there were cases with serological evidence of asymptomatic infection among vaccinated household contacts (9 of 66 vaccinated siblings). For two of these siblings, the vaccinated index patient was the most probable source of infection.

      You left out the fact that those were asymptomatic cases.

    • So you have the choice of being sick or not being sick… You aren’t anti vaccine, you are pro disease.

    • So you have the choice of being sick or not being sick… You aren’t anti vaccine, you are pro disease.

    • In kindergarten my son was forced to get chicken pox vaccine a week later he came down with shingles. It was so sad

    • Tami Fox Tami Fox says:

      Bridgette, California still has exemption options. Don’t let anyone bully you out of your parental rights.

    • Tami Fox Tami Fox says:

      I know. So sad that the government has become so big and convinced the general populace with fear mongering that they are about to stomp on our rights! It’s going to be devastating to watch what happens. So thankful we homeschool.

    • Tami Fox Tami Fox says:

      I know. So sad that the government has become so big and convinced the general populace with fear mongering that they are about to stomp on our rights! It’s going to be devastating to watch what happens. So thankful we homeschool.

    • Well, one thing we agree on. We are both happy that you homeschool.

    • Well, one thing we agree on. We are both happy that you homeschool.

    • In case you haven’t noticed the majority of the population is for vaccination. I’m curious, do you have any medical training and do you have a better way to stop infectious disease? I’m all ears…

    • Tami Fox Tami Fox says:

      Yes, hygiene, clean water, etc. If you look at the statistical data, infectious diseases were already on the decline prior to the introduction of vaccines. It has everything to do with better nutrition, hygiene and sanitation. In fact diseases like Scarlet Fever and Typhoid, for which there are no vaccines, are virtually non existent in western “civilized” nations. Childhood diseases may be at an all time low, but autoimmune diseases are at an all time high. We’ve traded acute childhood diseases for chronic lifetime autoimmune diseases. It doesn’t take medical training to read through statistics and know what is best for your family. God has given us each the innate ability to learn without needed a trained professional to tell us what to do.

    • Tami Fox Tami Fox says:

      While I have enjoyed trying to enlighten you, I will no longer be responding to this post because it’s clear that you are not open to a discussion. This isn’t my first rodeo. ;) I pray that you will continue to have the right to choose for your family.

    • Hygeine habits and water quality haven’t changed recently. But measles and pertussis keep coming back anyway. What has changed is the rate of vaccination. Along with that these diseases are returning. In India they wiped out polio with vaccines, sanitation is not optimal in India. Not all diseases are equal, some are easily contained with hand washing and sanitation. Some need more. Autoimmune disorders are in the rise but singling out vaccines without evidence makes little sense considering the numerous other possibilities. Just off the top of my head things like, hair dye, industrial waste, pesticides, cleaning products, sugar, pool chemicals, radiation and the fact that there are way more people that live way longer than previous generations means there are plenty of other possibilities to why some disorders are more common now.

      I disagree that it doesn’t take medical training to understand the methodology of public health and vaccination. I have medical training and I can tell you right now that you are not making the best choice for the people around you. Vaccines have saved millions of lives and part of the reason you have good health is a product of being in a highly vaccinated population. You’re welcome.

      It doesn’t surprise me that you aren’t willing to continue and defend your method of stopping infectious disease, meanwhile I will continue to do what is right and correct the false information that you supplement pushers put out there to sell false notion that you are smarter on medical issues than doctors, nurses, immunologists hematologists and virologists. And that your Google searches statistics are better than their peer reviewed studies. Good luck to you, you’ll need it.

  27. Joan Marie Lucero what about children under 12 months. They aren’t vaccinated!

  28. Fantastic… Ugh. James Sims

  29. Oh Geez !! Kristen Olson !!!

    • I knew about this last week. My nephew was in the class with the kid that had the measles so he was exposed. He has his MMR shot so hopefully he doesn’t get it. The incubation period is 5-15 days. It’s been about 7 days and so far so good.

  30. If there was ever a reason to not miss Santa Clarita. I moved away in 2011. I miss it immensely, but with the crime and measles, I don’t know. Cindy Nordstrom Dan Nordstrom

  31. We lived in Santa Clarita when I had German measles, I was 9 ish. I’m 57 now

  32. John Barba John Barba says:

    Some fool actually belive’s that the vaccine kills since measles were eraticate. there only those few unvaccinated babies and immunal compromised that are risk so if you havenot. been vaccinated stay out of the public venue

  33. So sad… This anti-science cultural fad is the true epidemic! As a Board Certified Behavior Analyst I effectively treat children with Autism on the daily, and it kills me to see people continuing to harm their kids by not listening to the facts. Refusing vaccinations, cutting out gluten, playing with horses, massaging the kid’s head, etc. are all treatments that have absolutely no evidence as working and a great deal evidence for being ineffective!

    • You know it’s also annoying when people talk about going gluten free as a bad thing or a fad. I HAD to cut out gluten and ALL dairy from my diet. I’m breastfeeding and my baby was having such a bad allergic reaction she had blood and mucus in her poop. As soon as I cut it out of my diet.. Day later she was better. So maybe people should stop grouping mothers together as doing the “wrong thing” and stop parent shamming.

    • You know it’s also annoying when people talk about going gluten free as a bad thing or a fad. I HAD to cut out gluten and ALL dairy from my diet. I’m breastfeeding and my baby was having such a bad allergic reaction she had blood and mucus in her poop. As soon as I cut it out of my diet.. Day later she was better. So maybe people should stop grouping mothers together as doing the “wrong thing” and stop parent shamming.

    • I understand how that can be frustrating. I am speaking of the diet change as a method to reduce symptoms of developmental disorders, however. Similarly to how people refuse vaccinations in an attempt to prevent such disorders, reducing gluten is not an effective method.

    • I understand how that can be frustrating. I am speaking of the diet change as a method to reduce symptoms of developmental disorders, however. Similarly to how people refuse vaccinations in an attempt to prevent such disorders, reducing gluten is not an effective method.

    • I too am GF…. But I vaccinated all of my kiddos….. I get what Lisa is saying.

  34. If your children are vaccinated, there is nothing to worry about. A simple blood test will tell you whether or not you’re safe.
    For people that refuse to vaccinate based on speculation , or talk show fodder, talk to your doctor!
    I am a mother of 6, and cannot be immunized. I am allergic to the vaccine, and would give anything to find an effective product to solve that. (Anaphylaxis isn’t a comfortable reaction )
    Knowing that a trip to the market could seal my fate, I am frustrated with the lack of knowledge and prevention that I’m seeing.
    Please consider just having the discussion with your doctor. Please don’t take the word of someone who isn’t invested in your child’s wellbeing.
    I get delaying vaccinations. ..but to refuse them completely is reckless. For so many people.

  35. 40 yrs ago we’d be like, “oh, the measles ‘going around again”.. No big deal….NOW it’s a crime if you don’t get the vaccination ? If the vax didn’t have the Mercury and junk, maybe it would be a healthy option, but really, what is our immune system for? Generations for eons have lived thru measles!

    • There is no Mercury or Mercury derivatives in any vaccinations besides the flu vaccine (and even that is safe, there are options without thimerosal and that is an entirely different discussion). Before vaccination measles killed an estimated 2.6 Million people per year (according to WHO), so yes, many lived, but many died. We’re able to stop measles and 2.6 million deaths a year! Our life expectancy has grown from an average of 26 years back in the Bronze Age, but is now nearing 80 years in developed regions. I love modern living and medicine, we’re incredibly lucky to be living in a time where we have effective treatments and prevention methods for infectious disease and increasing ability to treat and prevent complex disease such as cancer.

    • There is no Mercury or Mercury derivatives in any vaccinations besides the flu vaccine (and even that is safe, there are options without thimerosal and that is an entirely different discussion). Before vaccination measles killed an estimated 2.6 Million people per year (according to WHO), so yes, many lived, but many died. We’re able to stop measles and 2.6 million deaths a year! Our life expectancy has grown from an average of 26 years back in the Bronze Age, but is now nearing 80 years in developed regions. I love modern living and medicine, we’re incredibly lucky to be living in a time where we have effective treatments and prevention methods for infectious disease and increasing ability to treat and prevent complex disease such as cancer.

    • Renee Lasko Renee Lasko says:

      I’m wondering what your reasoning is for smallpox and polio vaccine,? I’m 76 years old and have had the measles, mumps, and chicken pox. When I had my children and could have them vaccinated, believe me, I did and they have done the same for all my grand children. Furthermore, my Mom had smallpox and almost died and many people in her town did. One of my brothers had polio and was in an iron lung for months. He is crippled from it. All of this before vaxs were developed. You obviously never had the measles, so you don’t know what you are talking about. It’s people that think like you do that are going to take us back to the Stone Age!!!!

    • Renee Lasko Renee Lasko says:

      I’m wondering what your reasoning is for smallpox and polio vaccine,? I’m 76 years old and have had the measles, mumps, and chicken pox. When I had my children and could have them vaccinated, believe me, I did and they have done the same for all my grand children. Furthermore, my Mom had smallpox and almost died and many people in her town did. One of my brothers had polio and was in an iron lung for months. He is crippled from it. All of this before vaxs were developed. You obviously never had the measles, so you don’t know what you are talking about. It’s people that think like you do that are going to take us back to the Stone Age!!!!

    • Lol, I had the measles, mumps, ruebela and chicken pox, scarlet fever…and still alive!! I am healthy, haven’t been to the doc since last child was born 19 yrs ago!! Many yrs ago, the vaccines were not polluted with the junk they are now, like I said, IF the vax were pure: only virus to build up our anti-bodies, they wouldn’t be so bad….btw, I think with Iran inthe nuke business, we’re heading back to the Stone Age with Obama leading the pack!! Ha! Keep a sense of humor, things are going to get crazy!

    • Roxanne….go to the dr!!! If you haven’t been in 19 years, not sure you know your healthy!!! That’s just ignorant!!!

    • Thank you Renee…..was curious to hear someone from your generation. I’m in my 40’s, and am an RN, I work with pediatricians and have heard them predicting this comeback of diseases for years. I’m totally shocked that people are standing by anti vaccine thinking!!!! Does polio need to make a comeback for people to open their eyes???? Good god…we are lucky for the progression of medicine!!!

    • Many people died more in the past than now. Where are people getting their anti vaccine peer reviewed research? I don’t get this!!!!

    • Dr Mark Geier, geneticist worked on vax…if anyone is interested..of course there is a lot of info out there, who do you choose to believe.. I’m just saying ‘cleanup the vax’….thermisol is the word they use now instead of mercury…
      http://vaccineimpact.com/2015/why-are-so-many-healthy-people-dying-from-the-flu-after-receiving-the-flu-shot/

    • Roxanne, that’s about the flu vaccine, this is about the measles.

    • Yes, vax in general….

    • Not all vaccines are the same. Measles is one of the slowest mutating viruses we know of, making the vaccine extremely effective. The flu is the exact opposite, mutating very fast. Also the strain of measles is easy to predict, whereas the flu is not. They are two very different things.

      The MMR doesn’t even use thermisol.

    • Correct, MMR only has fetal bovine serum, human albumin, pig gelatin, human fetus diploid lung cells, chick embryo cell culture, human DNA….

    • Yeah those sound scary. “Human albumin” otherwise known as “protein”… Scary. “Chicken cell culture” do you not eat chicken? You get a lot of chicken cells from that too. Scare tactics, nothing more. You are part of a smear campaign and it endangers children.

      Let me ask you, what is your alternative to vaccination? Where are the peer reviewed articles with a different method of containing infectious disease? Are you willing to get in the front lines and help in hospitals now that these diseases are returning directly in correlation with the growing anti-vaccination fad?

    • These particles don’t belong in our tissue or blood, we don’t need someone else’s DNA or fetal tissue…. MMR are childhood illnesses that used to be as common as colds…everyone got them…and got over them…I agree vax for polio,smallpox are good,but I assure they could make them better also….I’m over this now…time to live

    • Roxanne, the article you posted is about the flu vaccine which is completely different. Plus Dr Geier is not antivax, just against the flu vaccine. I’ve not read anything about mandating the flu vaccine. How do you think vaccines get made, the components you list are used in the process of making the vaccine that is not what is being injected. And as Paul points out, they sound scary, but they are not! Without vaccines, millions will die. My concern is that so many posting anti vaccine information, don’t truly understand what it means. Can you explain to me why the components you mention are harmful? And how much is actually in the MMR vaccine?

    • Have you ever seen someone suffer from mumps? Measles? Rubella? In the past it was survival of the fittest, not so these days! A virus can mutate, becoming harsher more debilitating over generations! Mumps was the lesser of these 3 but could still leave the victim with long term health issues! There is no conspiracy about vaccinations! Those that don’t put themselves & others @ risk, maybe even epidemic…but it is freedom of choice/free will just be prepared to reap what you sow.

    • Yes, I survived the M, M, & R…and my family and friends did too….

    • How long have you studied hematology?

      These diseases still exist around the globe. Modern transportation allows for rapid transmission if the overall population isn’t protected.

      Many people didn’t get over the measles, but they aren’t here to defend themselves from your false claim that everyone got over it. What you are displaying here is survivor bias.

      Vaccines can always get better and people that know what they are doing are working on that full time.

      I’m glad you are over it. I hope the rest of your ilk go back to talking about how great being a vegan is and leave the medicine to the professionals.

    • Roald Dahl was one of my favorite authors as a kid. He lost a child to measles. I highly doubt he or any of the other millions of parents who have lost children to various diseases we can now prevent ever said “no big deal”. It is a big deal and thousands of people out there like you are spreading this misinformation much like the diseases themselves. It’s really troubling! There are so many things wrong with your statement it’s hard to pick where to even begin to counter you.

      First off, the formula for Thimerosal is: C9H9HgNaO2S, NOT Hg (Mercury). Do you see the difference, Roxanne? That’s like saying you’re eating chlorine (Cl – very poisonous) when you eat something with salt (NaCl) in it. When a chlorine atom bonds with a sodium atom, you get a salt molecule. The properties of the chlorine atom are completely different than they were before they bonded with the sodium. The same applies to Mercury when it’s bonded with 9 carbon atoms, 9 hydrogen atoms, a sodium atom, a couple of oxygen atoms, and a sulfur atom.

      Furthermore, vaccines have been “cleaned up”, as you put it, over the years simply because time, research, and funding, have both demanded and permitted it. Thinking that vaccines from 20-30 years ago were somehow superior to vaccines that have had an additional 20-30 years of research, testing, application, observation, and analyzation of the results is completely naive.

      I just don’t get how Jenny freakin’ McCarthy has convinced an entire generation of people to cast aside science, safety, and common sense. Boggles my mind!!

    • There have been zero deaths or encephalitis from measles in over a decade. The death rate from measles had dropped 98% well before the vaccine for measles was introduced in 1963.

    • Willis, that information is incorrect.

    • Interesting, when I looked up measles statistics specif at the CDC I couldn’t find any deaths on record but on the death report as snopes points out yes, there were two recorded in 2009 and two recorded in 2010.

      There have still been over 100 deaths reported to VAERS from vaccine adverse reaction. Yes, these are reported and not verified but out of 100+ deaths I imagine more than 4 are legitimate so it would seem to me that the odds are still with not vaccinating, especially when you consider only 45% of current measles cases are unvaccinated people.

    • of course death is the worst outcome but not the only outcome, go ahead and read the VAERS data yourself.

      https://vaers.hhs.gov/data/index

    • No wonder you don’t understand, you are using your imagination to settle the data, try using logic.

    • Paul, the data isn’t settled but you want to use your imagination to pretend that nobody dies or is injured by vaccines when the evidence shows otherwise.

      DOJ quarterly report released TODAY says the vaccine injury compensation program has paid out on 5 deaths related to vaccine adverse reaction this quarter alone. Thats more deaths than we have recorded from measles in the last decade.

  36. Heather Miller Frucht – FYI

  37. Heather Miller Frucht – FYI

  38. Do they not have to have shots to go to school anymore? Ours did.

  39. Do they not have to have shots to go to school anymore? Ours did.

  40. Scvi Charter , are you aware of this?

  41. Scvi Charter , are you aware of this?

  42. Susana Palacios Morales

  43. Susana Palacios Morales

  44. Ray Ravago Ray Ravago says:

    Christina Hernandez

  45. Ray Ravago Ray Ravago says:

    Christina Hernandez

  46. Kim Gibbs Amanda Towery Jaclyn Michelle Gibbs

  47. Kim Gibbs Amanda Towery Jaclyn Michelle Gibbs

  48. Ummm any update on the school ???!

  49. Ummm any update on the school ???!

  50. Where’s the “What’s happening in our city!?” Comment?

  51. Are you serious, Natalie? If you are, please go to an island with the other kool-aid drinkers and leave us healthy vaccinated and our children alone… Thank you!!

  52. If you and your kids are vaccinated why are you so worried about those who aren’t? And did you know that after receiving the vaccine you shed the virus for several days?

  53. Wow I can’t say I like it

  54. Candice, Chad, Esther, Christina

  55. So, what happens to newborns or infants who are unable to receive the vaccine because of their age? Do we just let the “little ones” tough it out and perhaps die , go blind, and have lasting life disabilities from those who refuse to vaccinate their children? A simple vaccination is easier than transmitting a disease for many babies who will have life threatening and possible life time disabilities. Get vaccinated and begin to care for others as you would have them care for you!!!!

  56. Robert Sebel Robert Sebel says:

    No Roxanne Arkie, “generations for eons” have died of measles!
    How many more deadly and crippling childhood diseases would you like to bring back? As for the Mercury, Thimerosal contains ethyl mercury. This is a different chemical compound than mercury found in the environment (methylmercury). Thimerosal has been used as a preservative since the 1930s to prevent bacterial growth in vials containing multiple doses of vaccine and other medical products, or perhaps you like your life saving medication with a side of deadly bacteria instead?

  57. Jesus has the name Above Measles !!

  58. Matt Gade Matt Gade says:

    Shawna McAdams Gade

  59. Cristen, Candice, Patricia, Vicky… Just fyi.

  60. Literally, a block away from my house, Gina. And Emily is sick with a fever again. Took her to the doctor last night just to be sure and she’s cleared. Thank God.

  61. Literally, a block away from my house, Gina. And Emily is sick with a fever again. Took her to the doctor last night just to be sure and she’s cleared. Thank God.

  62. Tami Fox Tami Fox says:

    I heard the child who this article about was indeed vaccinated. Not sure if that’s true or not, but worth looking into before this witch hunt for the unvaccinated begins…

  63. Tami Fox Tami Fox says:

    I heard the child who this article about was indeed vaccinated. Not sure if that’s true or not, but worth looking into before this witch hunt for the unvaccinated begins…

  64. Abigail says:

    Not sure anyone here will care, but I am survivor of the Rebella vaccine. I say survivor because it crippled me for a year when I was 5 years old. Obviously it was not good for me. I am a case study at Yale in New Haven, CT. FACT not a disposable pamphlet in the doctors office that lists the possible side effects. I am real.

    The reason I am telling anyone here who will listen about this is because the makers of these vaccines will not let them be separated. You can ONLY get the vaccines in the form of all MMR together. I would have been happy to vaccinate my son earlier/younger if they would have allowed me to take out the one I knew there was a problem with in my family line. More people probably would get vaccinated if they had a choice. We do NOT have a choice. You get them all or NONE.

    When I finally did get my son vaccinated he was only given the vaccine once – MMR. Two of the three he is already immune to by testing his blood. Why do I have to pump him full of those two again to get the third one? Try taking that fight up. You may get more people vaccinated if you give them a choice.

    Happy to be an American where I have freedom of choice, or do I ?

  65. Javi says:

    If only the BANDWAGON could be full.

    Vaccines are dangerous and have been killing and maiming people since their inception.

    Bet ya didn’t know that the “Raggedy Ann” doll was made for and became popular because of a little girl who DIED from being vaccinated.

    “Oh but that was a looong time ago”

    CURRENTLY over 320 individuals have DIED as a result of the MMR Vaccination. there were another 6000+ “complications”

    http://www.nvic.org/vaccines-and-diseases/measles/measles-vaccine-injury-death.aspx

    Read it and weep.

    How bout you all read up on the new “Guardsil” fad vaccine too.

    You will all be looking back in horror 5-10 years from now when you find out how badly young girls have been injured by it and wonder why infertility rates are so high.

    When Rick Perry wanted to mandate it in Texas, we should have arrested him and pumped him full of it.

    God gave people immune systems for a reason.

  66. amy says:

    WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!
    ‘Measles is only contagious from people to people, and it doesn’t linger in the environment — it does linger in the air for a couple of hours, but this was a week ago, he said.”

    CDC:
    Also, measles virus can live for up to two hours on a surface or in an airspace where the infected person coughed or sneezed.

  67. What next!? #homeschool

  68. What next!? #homeschool

  69. Chrystal says:

    Was the child already vaccinated with the mmr? Im betting yes, which means the vaccines dont work like they claim.

  70. stacy says:

    Concerned. Where else did that child visit around town, and who else did they possibly infect.

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