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California Parents Having ‘Measles Parties’ to Infect Their Unvaccinated Kids

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People get more and more confusing every day! A party to go get infected as long as it isn't you who is, just your child. Why are people so blinking cruel? I just can't understand it. It's so counter intuitive. It seems like you would go out of your way to protect your family from pain and suffering. These child abusers should be thrown in jail!

I don't even understand it when they advocate infecting someone with chickenpox. It causes shingles later.

Measles is most often a relatively mild disease--but it can have complications.

When I was growing up, it was one of those "normal childhood diseases." In fact, I got it when I was 2, the same year the vaccination for it was created. Anti-vaccination thought is absurd, in my opinion.

All you have to do is read up on polio before they came up with the Salk and Sabin vaccine. Then you'll get some idea about how the world was before there were many vaccinations.

That's precisely why you want to infect someone when they are young. You're much less likely to get shingles if you've already had chickenpox, which is a much less painful disease.

My wife had seen a story about a 19th century woman who had gotten all her children exposed to the measles. All six died. What's to stop that from happening today?

Measles COULD be a serious disease. I wouldn't tempt fate.

When I was little people still got chickenpox, measles and mumps. They weren't considered serious, just part of growing up. Back then it was common for a mother to bring their child over to play with the sick child so they could go ahead and catch it and get it over with. That way the child was sick on the mothers schedule and caught it when the child was otherwise healthy.

I wouldn't say Mumps isn't a big deal after seeing three separate individuals who suffered brain damage after catching it. I would say Mumps is something I wouldn't want anyone I loved to catch.

If their anything like my brother and sister-in-law, they still believe that vaccines cause autism, EVEN WHEN I CAN PROVE TO THEM BEYOND A SHADOW OF A DOUBT THAT IS NOT THE CASE. They think Andrew Wakefield is a Messiah, and would take their son and daughter to him in an instant for a cure.

I never had any vaccines because I had allergies to them. Not even the first one. My allergies were so bad that they didn't want to risk it. I still have AS though.

My dad had been born in rural eastern Washington in 1921, a time and place barely beyond the old west, where armed drifters sought work on farms and ranches, and horse thieves had been strung up by the local vigilance committee barely a decade or two before. It's reasonable to say that my dad, like everyone else there, was never vaccinated, and in fact suffered through childhood diseases. And yet, I am absolutely certain that had he had the chance to talk with a psychologist during his lifetime, he would have been found to be on the autistic spectrum.

The chickenpox virus lies dormant in people who have had it. Later on, they may develop shingles. Anyone who has had chicken pox risks getting shingles later in life.

"Less likely" being the operative phrase. If you're first exposed to the virus as an adult, you're definitely in trouble. Only a tiny fraction of those exposed in childhood get sick.