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A small but increasing number of children in the United States are not getting some or all of their recommended vaccinations. The percentage of children under 2 years old who haven't received any vaccinations has quadrupled in the last 17 years, according to federal health data released Thursday.
Overall, immunization rates remain high and haven't changed much at the national level. But a pair of reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about immunizations for preschoolers and kindergartners highlights a growing concern among health officials and clinicians about children who aren't getting the necessary protection against vaccine-preventable diseases, such as measles, whooping cough and other pediatric infectious diseases.
The vast majority of parents across the country vaccinate their children and follow recommended schedules for this basic preventive practice. But the recent upswing in vaccine skepticism and outright refusal to vaccinate has spawned communities of undervaccinated children who are more susceptible to disease and pose health risks to the broader public.
[...] The data underlying the latest reports do not explain the reason for the increase in unvaccinated children. In some cases, parents hesitate or refuse to immunize, officials and experts said. Insurance coverage and an urban-rural disparity are likely other reasons for the troubling rise.
Among children aged 19 months to 35 months in rural areas, about 2 percent received no vaccinations in 2017. That is double the number of unvaccinated children living in urban areas.
(Score: 1, Troll) by ledow on Friday October 12 2018, @08:52AM (7 children)
Please name three human diseases that were forcibly eradicated by ANY vaccination program whatsoever.
Because there are only two in all of recorded history, one of those was only in animals and the other still exists in labs (which is how the last death occurred), and we think might be making a comeback by some convergent evolution from related strains.
Literally, the world has only ever eliminated smallpox and rinderpest.
That's *IT*.
Anyone who knows anything about the history of contagious diseases also knows that. And that smallpox is not only still around, but around to enough that the last two people who died of it were lab researchers studying it.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 12 2018, @09:07AM
Are you serious?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poliomyelitis_eradication#Timeline [wikipedia.org]
1975 — 49,293
2017 — 22
Also, just to quell any illiterates out there (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poliomyelitis_eradication#Vaccine-derived_poliovirus) [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 12 2018, @12:40PM (1 child)
I don't think GP meant worldwide eradication.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diseases_eliminated_from_the_United_States [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Friday October 12 2018, @11:36PM
I looked at the first one. The Yellow Fever. After 1905, no more Yellow Fever -- except from IMMIGRANTS, they call it imported. But vaccine started in 1938. No vaccine until 1938. Nobody asks, why did Yellow Fever stop in 1905? Why did that one go away? I don't know, maybe nobody knows. I'll tell you, it wasn't vaccine. Because, they didn't have vaccine yet. Not for a long time. About 33 years, right? And probably it was CLEAN LIVING. But, sick & dirty immigrants kept coming in. 1996, they were bringing Yellow Fever. When Bill Clinton was in charge. And our boarders were out of control. We had open boarders. And it was a disaster!!!
Listen, ALL Dems in Congress -- every last one, even Joe Manchin -- signed the Open Boarders Bill. Written by Dianne Feinkenstien. Fortunately they don't have the votes to pass that one. But if we lose control of Congress, if they get the seats, Open Boarders will be the FIRST thing on their agenda. For the new, and horrible, Congress. We need to stop that one -- or it's the END of our Country (Treason). VOTE REPUBLICAN!!!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 12 2018, @01:29PM (3 children)
Careful. "Eradication" doesn't mean what you think it means anymore:
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/is-india-actually-free-of-polio/article7945687.ece [thehindu.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 12 2018, @02:16PM (2 children)
You're denying the antecedent.
Poliovirus is not the only cause of flaccid paralysis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denying_the_antecedent [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 12 2018, @02:38PM (1 child)
Yes, how interesting that the rates of non-polio AFP rise as the rates of polio-AFP drop. Almost as if the diagnostic criteria (eg blood tests) are being gamed for political reasons.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 12 2018, @03:33PM
And lets not forget measles, where 99% of what would have previously been diagnosed as measles are now diagnosed as something else:
Walter A. Orenstein, Rafael Harpaz; Completeness of Measles Case Reporting: Review of Estimates for the United States, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume 189, Issue Supplement_1, 1 May 2004, Pages S185–S190, https://doi.org/10.1086/378501 [doi.org]