Bfriedli said:
Lol. Limiting the outbreak, true but this shows it doesn't work!! Sorry to typo 5% too, not 50%. Again for the millionth time, talking about USA NOT WORLD NUMBERS!! We have acess to medical and extremly cleaner living condition. And in the USA there has been around 1800 cases in the last 15 years. So 1 person in the last 15 years got encephalitis. Compared to over 100 deaths from the measles vacine. JUST CLARIFYING AGAIN USA ONLY.
http://www.cdc.gov/measles/cases-outbreaks.html
http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/opinion-search
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Completely untrue about the hundred deaths from the measles vaccine.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/mmrdeaths.asp
Specifically the 100 deaths statistic's source is from data from VAERS.
When evaluating data from VAERS, it is important to note that for any reported event, no cause-and-effect relationship has been established. Reports of all possible associations between vaccines and adverse events (possible side effects) are filed in VAERS. Therefore, VAERS collects data on any adverse event following vaccination, be it coincidental or truly caused by a vaccine. The report of an adverse event to VAERS is not documentation that a vaccine caused the event.
People need to understand that the reason measles death rates and contraction rates are low is because it has been nearly irradicated thanks to the vaccine. The number of measles cases right now are fairly insignificant. What would be a problem is if more and more illinformed parents decide against vaccinating their kids for non allergy related reasons and cause the measles rate to continue to increase.
http://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/graph-us-measles-cases
And more importantly what would be the biggest problem is if people start avoiding vaccinations for more serious viruses. This is a good explination for why we should not stop vaccinating against viruses that have been erradicated in the US. Measles is just a very good example showing how a virus all but irradicated in the US can start coming back.
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/whatifstop.htm
I understand I will probably never convince everyone because some people have already made up their minds. But I urge people on the fence to look for actual scientific articles, check sources carefully, and not fall for misleading statistics. This is mostly done by cherry picking specific numbers and flat out not understand what certain numbers actually impy. A very good example of this is the original poster's claim that the measles vaccine caused 100 deaths in the past 10 years.
Thankfully a majority of people still choose to vaccinate and as long as that continues it won't be a huge issue for a small group of people to avoid vaccinations. We might have to deal with small outbreaks every now and than but to be honest there are a lot more pressing things to worry about. We just need to make sure that the amount of people who avoid vaccinations stays small and everyone both vaccinated and not will be fairly unlikely to catch these viruses.
For more information the CDC has a lot of information and I also encourage people to read the actual references they list.
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/Concerns/Autism/antigens.html
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/meas.html
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/autism/