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Parents Believe Flu Vaccine is Conspiracy, Causes AutismQuote:
MORE THAN HALF OF parents with children under the age of 18 believe that their children can contract the flu from the shot.
Additionally, one-third of parents say the shot does not protect children from contracting the virus, a study by Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children found. The study comes just as flu season is beginning and shortly after an unvaccinated child died of the flu in Florida earlier this month.
The parts of the virus that are used are completely dead, so you cannot get the flu from the flu shot," Moorjani, a pediatrician at Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, said. "After receiving the shot, it takes your body about two weeks to build up antibodies to fight the flu, so if you come in contact with the virus during that time, you may still get sick, which is why you should get your flu shot as early as possible."
However, some parents remain hesitant, with 28 percent saying the flu shot can cause autism.
During last year's flu season, one of the most severe in history, 180 children died of the virus, according to the release. And the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 80,000 people died nationwide from the flu.
According to the study, 70 percent of parents say the flu vaccine is the best way to protect children from the virus.
During last year's flu season, one of the most severe in history, 180 children died of the virus, according to the release. And the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 80,000 people died nationwide from the flu.
How many people and how many parents have been misled to death by that monster Donald Trump?Trump claims vaccines and autism are linked but his own experts vehemently disagree. The president has tweeted more than 20 times claiming - falsely - there is a link between vaccines and autismQuote:
On more than 20 occasions, Mr Trump has tweeted about there being a link between vaccines and autism, something experts at the government’s leading public health institute say is not true. He also repeated the claim during a Republican primary debate, a remark that was immediately dismissed as false by the Autistic Self Advocacy Network.
Prior the election, Mr Trump met with four prominent anti-vaccine campaigners at a fundraiser in Florida – disbarred British doctor Andrew Wakefield, Mark Blaxill, editor-at-large of the Age of Autism website, Gary Kompothecras, a chiropractor and Trump donor from Sarasota, and Jennifer Larson, an entrepreneur who has campaigned against the use of vaccines in her home state of Minnesota...
“CDC, the Federal Drug Administration, and the Advisory Committee on Immunisation Practices, regularly review data to ensure that vaccine recommendations are based on the latest available science to provide safe and effective protection against serious diseases. Concerned parents should be reassured that recommended childhood vaccines have a strong safety record.”
It added: “For the general population, maintaining high vaccination levels is important not only for the individual person but also to protect potentially deadly diseases from spreading to the most vulnerable among us, such as patients with weakened immune systems and newborn children who are too young to be vaccinated.”...
Mr Wakefield was in 2010 found guilty by the UK’s General Medial Council of three dozen charges including dishonesty and abuse of children, shortly after The Lancet medical journal retracted the 1998 study on which his claims about the MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine were based. The magazine’s editor said at the time that statements in the article “were utterly false”.
A decade earlier he had moved to Texas where he continued to promote his theories. Health officials in Minnesota believe he was partly responsible for a 2017 outbreak of measles, the worst in decades, among the Somali-American community in Minneapolis.
He and other anti-vaccine campaigners met several times with members of the community, which was concerned about what it believed was an unusually high incidence of autism among Somali boys, something health officials said was not borne out by data...
Asked about his meeting with the president, Mr Wakefield told The Independent: “I met him once before the election, when he was running for the presidency. We had a meeting in Florida. We were there, four of us representing the issue of autism and its link to immunisation.
“He interjected and said ‘you don’t need to tell me that vaccines cause autism. I’ve seen it, I’ve seen it personally’. We went on to discuss the issue of there autism crisis that is set to affect 80 per cent of boys if nothing is done. He said if he was to be elected he’d do something about it.”
19 Oct 2018, 1:25 am
