7 Replies to “California high school sends unvaccinated students home [Darleen Click]”

1. Shermlaw says:

   January 29, 2015 at 9:29 am

   Of course, no one will speak the truth. The increase in these sorts of outbreaks is traceable to the open borders policy pursued by the administration. Combine that with the nutty anti-vaccination crowd and one has a complete recipe for a public health disaster.

2. LBascom says:

   January 29, 2015 at 9:43 am

   A student was sent home with a suspected case that was cleared, and now they’re trying to prevent a second wave of cases ?

   Sounds like the anti-vaxxers aren’t the only ones entertaining chicken little…

3. geoffb says:

   January 29, 2015 at 9:44 am

   Claims of a connection between the MMR vaccine and autism were raised in a 1998 paper in The Lancet, a respected British medical journal. Later investigation by Sunday Times journalist Brian Deer discovered the lead author of the article, Andrew Wakefield, had multiple undeclared conflicts of interest, and had broken other ethical codes. The Lancet paper was later fully retracted, and Wakefield was found guilty by the General Medical Council of serious professional misconduct in May 2010, and was struck off the Medical Register, meaning he could no longer practise as a doctor in the UK.

   The GMC’s panel also considered two of Wakefield’s colleagues: John Walker-Smith was also found guilty and struck off the Register; Simon Murch “was in error” but acted in good faith, and was cleared. Walker-Smith was later cleared and reinstated after winning an appeal; the appeal court’s finding was based on the panel’s conduct of the case, and gave no support to the MMR-autism hypothesis, which the official judgement described as lacking support from any respectable body of opinion. The research was declared fraudulent in 2011 by the BMJ. Scientific evidence provides no support for the hypothesis that MMR plays a role in causing autism.

   The autism-related MMR study in Britain caused use of the vaccine to plunge, and measles cases came back: 2007 saw 971 cases in England and Wales, the biggest rise in occurrence in measles cases since records began in 1995. A 2005 measles outbreak in Indiana was attributed to children whose parents refused vaccination, as was another outbreak in 2008 in San Diego. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that the three biggest outbreaks of measles in 2013 were attributed to clusters of unvaccinated people due to their philosophical or religious beliefs. By August, three pockets of outbreak—in New York City, North Carolina, and Texas—contributed to 64% of the 159 cases of measles that occurred in 16 states. Although measles was thought to be eliminated from the United States in 2000, 644 cases were reported in 2014. [

4. sdferr says:

   January 29, 2015 at 9:52 am

   Have the epidemiologists been swarming the Pens clubhouse? Does the mumps-mystery abate?

5. geoffb says:

   January 29, 2015 at 10:06 am

   It appears that the US outbreaks are mostly coming from Europe and Asia brought here either by infected visitors or unvaccinated American’s who travel, catch it overseas and bring it back home where it is then spread to and by other unvaccinated people.

6. bgbear says:

   January 29, 2015 at 10:51 am

   You miss the old days when people just realized that some kids were born stupid.

7. Bob Belvedere says:

   January 30, 2015 at 9:15 am

   Look over the nations and see!
   And be utterly mortified!
   For an idiocy is being done in your days
   That you would not believe, were it told.

   And the Lord said to Bob
   ‘The stupid, it really burns, eh?’
   And Bob respondeth not
   Because he was imbibing
   The manna from Kentucky

   —The Boble, Book Of Habadabadu, 1:5-13

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