Canada: ’52 of the 98 Teens Who Caught Measles Were Fully Vaccinated’
October 21st, 2011Via: CBC:
An unusual vaccine observation from a large measles outbreak in Quebec may raise some alarm among those who attend the annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
Measles cases have surged in parts of Canada and the United States this year, with cases among unvaccinated children and teens driving the high numbers, public health officials from both countries will tell a major infectious diseases conference this weekend. A still smoldering outbreak of measles in Quebec is the largest in the Americas in over a decade. A still smoldering outbreak of measles in Quebec is the largest in the Americas in over a decade. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Canadian Press
An investigation into an outbreak in a high school in a town that was heavily hit by the virus found that about half of the cases were in teens who had received the recommended two doses of vaccine in childhood — in other words, teens whom authorities would have expected to have been protected from the measles virus.
It’s generally assumed that the measles vaccine, when given in a two-dose schedule in early childhood, should protect against measles infection about 99 per cent of the time. So the discovery that 52 of the 98 teens who caught measles were fully vaccinated came as a shock to the researchers who conducted the investigation.
Isn’t it interesting that professional medical researchers were “shocked” by said results, but people like our host and myself are NOT even remotely surprised…
Wow, I am shocked…hmmpfhh
What I don’t get is when they say “cases among unvaccinated children and teens driving the high numbers”, but then in the very next paragraph they say that “half of the cases were vaccinated”. How can you make both statements?? If MORE THAN half that received the vaccine GOT measels, how are the non-vaccinated driving the epidemic? Why not produce the numbers of the overall epidemic, and who of those received the vaccine? If the numbers show a higher propensity of non-vaccinated kids getting it, don’t you think they’d want to produce that??
They were shocked!! Oh, and they were shocked!!! Really? “If other groups confirm what the Quebec investigation found, it could mean there is a lot more susceptibility to measles in the vaccinated population than is currently being assumed” De Serres admitted.
Shocking indeed that this nonsense has continued without being challenged.
Great piece on the vaccination I don’t think i’ve seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hITYIT02rA
I’ll post on cryptogon story board.
All UC Berkeley mumps patients had two vaccinations, city says – Contra Costa Times
http://therefusers.com/refusers-newsroom/all-uc-berkeley-mumps-patients-had-two-vaccinations-city-says/
The vast majority of California pertussis cases were fully-vaccinated children
http://therefusers.com/refusers-newsroom/pertussis-vaccine-failure-and-the-failure-of-pseudo-scientific-vaccination-policy/
CDC to Mandate Pertussis Vaccine for Pregnant Women
http://therefusers.com/refusers-newsroom/cdc-to-mandate-pertussis-vaccine-for-pregnant-women/