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posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday August 08 2018, @07:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the seriously? dept.

An amendment from Italy's anti-establishment government that removes mandatory vaccination for schoolchildren is sending shock waves through the country's scientific and medical community.

It suspends for a year a law that requires parents to provide proof of 10 routine vaccinations when enrolling their children in nurseries or preschools. The amendment was approved by Italy's upper house of parliament on Friday by 148 to 110 votes and still has to pass the lower house.

The law had originally been introduced by the Democratic Party in July 2017 amid an ongoing outbreak of measles that saw 5,004 cases reported in 2017 -- the second-highest figure in Europe after Romania -- according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Italy accounted for 34% of all measles cases reported by countries in the European Economic Area, the center said.

Italy's Five Star movement and its coalition partner, the far-right League, both voiced their opposition to compulsory vaccinations, claiming they discourage school inclusion.

English Language Source: https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/07/health/italy-anti-vaccine-law-measles-intl/index.html


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by bob_super on Wednesday August 08 2018, @07:13PM (6 children)

    by bob_super (1357) on Wednesday August 08 2018, @07:13PM (#718931)

    For the last ten years, we've been trying to replay the late 1930s, and are still getting closer.
    I didn't realise we are so ambitious we also want to replay the late 1340s [wikipedia.org].

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @07:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @07:55PM (#718959)

    The more doomsday predictions get used to swindle marks out of their money, the less trustfulness will remain for the unfortunate time when something really bad REALLY happens.

  • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday August 08 2018, @08:18PM (3 children)

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Wednesday August 08 2018, @08:18PM (#718969) Homepage Journal

    They called it the Black Death, we call it Plague. MUCH MORE SERIOUS than Measles. But, dumb doctors want little babies to get Measles vaccine. Not Plague vaccine. Why??

    • (Score: 3, Touché) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday August 08 2018, @09:22PM (1 child)

      by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Wednesday August 08 2018, @09:22PM (#719016) Homepage Journal

      Because it's easily treated with antibiotics. Sucks to have gotten the plague before that decaying orange was spotted by a sharp-eyed nurse.

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      • (Score: 2) by Hyperturtle on Thursday August 09 2018, @04:27PM

        by Hyperturtle (2824) on Thursday August 09 2018, @04:27PM (#719445)

        Not only that, but you can't get a vaccine that cures a bacterium and you can't cure any virus with antibiotics. (not including engineered viruses that deliver dosed antibiotics...)

        MDC is correct, but I do wish other people somehow remember this.

        In other news, antibiotic overuse is a real problem--and simply using it on the wrong things is just as bad. Getting vaccines that don't work are not going to cause the same problems.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @09:53PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @09:53PM (#719047)

      Let's say you forgot to pull out in time and Ivanka got pregnant. Would you want your son/grandson to get measles?

  • (Score: 2, Disagree) by Bot on Friday August 10 2018, @03:13PM

    by Bot (3902) on Friday August 10 2018, @03:13PM (#719940) Journal

    OK guys were you actually around in the 70s? I dunno about the rest of the world but in the 70s Italians did not vaccinate at all against measles, and there are more casualties for the flu NOW than there were for measles then. Of course there was no cancer among kids, while there is now. Youngsters dying on the football fields for heart related problems? unheard of. Autism? virtually none.

    So while I don't discuss vaccines (as a case specific discussion should be made instead), I am pretty sure that if I could choose between the health situation in the 70s and the one of today, I would definitely pick the 70s.

    Back to topic, It is a given that authorities do not care for public health. If they did, all illegal immigrants would be hunted rounded and quarantined. Also the traffic of goods would be minimized. It is funny to see all the media attention towards CO2, while imported, or exported, species damage the environment beyond repair.

    So when the same authorities push for mandatory vaccinations, I am not going enthusiastically for it. IMHO vaccination should be part of germ warfare branch of the army.

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