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11 CASES HAVE been diagnosed so far in the ongoing outbreak of measles in Ireland.
The HSE’s Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) said that 10 cases have been diagnosed in Limerick and one linked case in Dublin.
A number of further possible cases are being investigated so this figure may rise, it said.
The measles outbreak control team is continuing to investigate the measles cases and offer advice on the measures to control the further spread of this potentially serious illness.
The HSPC said the best protection against measles is to be fully vaccinated with two doses of the MMR (Measles-Mumps-Rubella) vaccine. The HSE is offering free MMR vaccine clinics in Limerick to deal with the outbreak.
The HSPC says that if you have symptoms suggestive of measles you should stay at home, not go to school or work and phone your GP and explain that you may have measles.
People who have not been fully vaccinated with MMR vaccine or have not had measles in the past are at high risk of getting measles if exposed.
The people most at risk of catching measles are those who are not fully vaccinated with two doses of MMR vaccine, such as babies younger than 12 months who are too young to be vaccinated, and those with weakened immune systems.
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Need more vaccination.
@James Brown: vaccine are not always 100% effective.
@Ailbhe Nolan: they are 100% effective in not causing autism though. And would definitely have prevented an outbreak of measles
@Ailbhe Nolan: if we had a full (excluding those with compromised immune systems) uptake in vaccines. Herd immunity would and should prevent an outbreak like this. This is solely down to irresponsible selfish parents. Immediate stoppage of benefits should be introduced to stupid parents
@Ailbhe Nolan: “vaccine are not always 100% effective.”
The measles vaccine is 100% effective.
Couples with herd immunity, we had effectively eradicated this killer until the anti-vaxxers brought it back.
Thanks, anti vaxxers.
Now you can work on bringing back polio.
@Steve Mac:
Apart from the active ingredients that in the MMR vaccine, can you definitively tell me why Aluminium & Thiomersal, along with other toxic ingredients are added to Vaccines?. BTW I’m not an Anti Vax, I’d just like to know what I’m allowing a doctor to put in my child, and the effects these ingredients would have on a young developing child.
@Eleanor of Aquitaine:
*that’s
@Eleanor of Aquitaine: They are adjuvants. If you created vaccines from weakened pathogenic material, there would be little or no immune response in the body, hence it would be considered that no so called “immunity” was created. It is a nonsense because the antibodies created are not in response to a pathogen but to some very toxic materials. examples as you have provided above. Research is now showing that so called “immunity” from vaccines is relatively short lived (a few years) whereas acquired immunity from exposure to a real pathogen by either inhaling or ingesting (as opposed to injecting into the bloodstream) creates an educated immune response which lasts a lifetime thereafter.
@Ian Oh: any sources there Ian? Facebook, YouTube etc. don’t count obviously…
@Ian Oh: faceplam… amateur scientist/doctor/brain donor
@Michael Powell: I know a fair bit of stuff, but I have never heard of a faceplam before. Could you explain it to me please??
@Pseud O’Nym: Google is your friend. From pubmed: “Adjuvants are substances added to vaccines to enhance the immunogenicity of highly purified antigens that have insufficient immunostimulatory capabilities” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4494348/
There are adjuvants in all vaccines so obviously the purified antigens have insufficient immunostimulatory capabilities to create a sufficient immune response, so adjuvants bring about the conditions such that antibodies are created.as a response.
@Ian Oh:
Got any new evidence that immunity is ‘short-lived’?
@Michael Powell: and no attending school till vaccine up to date
@Walt Jabsco: And a partial explanation of the reasons why: https://academic.oup.com/occmed/article/57/8/552/1474357
@Eleanor of Aquitaine:
Sorbitol
Sodium phosphate
Potassium phosphate
Sucrose
Hydrolysed gelatin
Medium 199 with Hanks’ salts
Minimum Essential Medium, Eagle (MEM)
Monosodium L-glutamate
Neomycin
Phenol red
Sodium bicarbonate
Hydrochloric acid (to adjust pH)
Sodium hydroxide (to adjust pH)
Water for injections
For those who are too lazy or unable to find the list of excipients of the MMR vaccine.
btw aluminium is a adjuvant, increasing the immunogenicity of a vaccine, thimerosal is a safe antimicrobial preservative used in multidose vaccines.
Vaccinate your kids people. Not doing so will endanger people too sick to get it. Stop with the conspiracy theory bull!!
@Mark H: hit the parents hard with stupid stick and do like the Aussies. Cut child benefits for these idiotic parents that believe Facebook; ex pornstars, YouTube videos and disgraced doctors over all peer supported studies
If these children were not vaccinated for no other reason than “I read online they are bad. Even though every study says vaccines are safe, there is this one discredited doctor that says they aren’t” then these parents should be prosecuted, if on benefits should be cut off and fined etc.. Measles can lead to pneumonia, brain damage, deafness and in worse cases even death. 100,000 children die each year from measles and since kids have been vaccinated over 20 million lives have been saved. How any parent can chose not to give the vaccination if there is no medical reason is neglect.
@Ed Ucator: Really….no reason not vaccinate. Me thinks you talk complete rubbish. Here’s 50 good reasons. Try that on for starters.
Link child benefit to vaccination.
Except, of course, those children allergic to it.
@Steve B: How would you know those children that are allergic to it before it is too late?? No testing of any kind is done even though that it is now known that variants of the mthfr gene has a clear association with Autism, meaning we could trigger Autism in children with polymorphism of this gene by vaccinations.
@Ian Oh:
Published evidence that vaccines can trigger autism please.
@Walt Jabsco: Google is your friend. Research the link between polymorphism of the mthfr gene and Autism. 98% of Autistic children have it. It is also known that a considerable % of the general population have the same gene variant, but don’t have Autism. In these children, it is accepted that certain events such as major health or psychological upheavals can cause the transition to Autism. Having a vaccine always runs the risk of a major adverse event. The vaccine manufacturers even admit this themselves. So the question which arises: Are the very toxic adjuvants (lets call a spade a spade here) in vaccines causing children with polymorphic mthfr gene expression to become Autistic is a very valid one. The link has not been proven. But it has not been disproven either. It is a very valid hypothesis. Common sense would tell you that there is strong probability. Much more research is needed. But vaccine manufacturers will be in no rush to do it for sure. People need to be given the full facts when they are making an informed decision, but of course that is not happening either. Testing needs to be done before vaccinations are carried out and let the results speak for themselves. But No, we are not doing that either. Instead, it’s just deny, deny, deny. Just like yourself. Are you a pharma shill by any chance?? There is no denying that children are being damaged by vaccines whether it is universally accepted by vaccine administers or not.
@Walt Jabsco: you want evidence….here’s some.
@Ian Oh:
“The link has not been proven”
So in other words your first post is based on nothing more than speculation.
Interesting that you label someone who asks for evidence as a “shill for big pharma “.
@Colie Mac:
If you can find a study that finds that a cohort of vaccinated kids suffered a significantly greater occurrence of autism than a cohort of unvaccinated kids please post it.
Unvaccinated children need to be removed from schools, denied access to public parks and team sports . Home school your precious little germ incubators.
@DaisyChainsaw: totally agree and cut off child benefit. There will be a complete uptake then by irresponsible parents
@Zach Addington: Cal/Carl/Tommy/Tom/Jane/Niccolo, you’re nothing but a runny turd. Jog on cockwomble.
@Zach Addington: you’ll find Zach that it’s you that has the problem with children seeing as you are antivaccination. Your warped theory risks all children
Vaccinate your kids so my baby son isn’t at risk please!
@Oiche Fairy: You should look up the term shedding Oiche. Those who are just vaccinated are more likely to spread any virus than an unvaccinated child.
I love the way everyone has already jumped to the conclusion that these 11 cases were caused by parents not vaccinating their children. That’s what happens when you leave details out such as the age group of these cases, vaccination status, etc.
@Frederick Higginbottom: well genius what do you think was the cause of this outbreak?
@Michael Powell: A new stain of measles perhaps are all the cases unvaccinated ?
@Helen Hayes: not vaccinating your children allows the virus to survive and mutate. Next you’ll be looking for polio to be reintroduced
@Michael Powell: Ridiculous uneducated comment.
@Frederick Higginbottom they actually were, two cases one case from Paris which was contained the other source from an unvaccinated child which has spread like wildlife
Hopefully the anti-vaccine idiots realize that this is down to their spreading misinformation and bad science. When you spread fear, you reap disease.
@Emo101: Fear mongering is well and truly covered by those pushing them. I’ve experienced it first hand. You cant have any discussion, except “without vaccines, your child will die”. You gotta wonder why. If people are searching for facts and information, there is no need to use fear in the debate, unless of course you have something to hide.
@Ian Oh:
Because some unvaccinated kids die from preventable diseases maybe
@Walt Jabsco: Really Walt. How about the only study of it’s kind done shows that there’s an increased mortality rate of 500% of those kids who took the DTap vaccine vs the unvaccinated. So. Let’s just run through that again…only study ever done of vaccinated vs unvaccinated…. and there was a 500% increase of mortality in those that were vaccinated. So completely the opposite of what you are stating.
http://www.ebiomedicine.com/article/S2352-3964(17)30046-4/fulltext
@Colie Mac:
That is a very specific study looking at the age at which the vaccine was administered.
Either way, how does it refute my point that unvaccinated kids can die from preventable diseases??
Are you actually claiming that more kids die now from smallpox, measles etc. than died before widespread vaccination was introduced??
The incident is being “examined” by the measles outbreak control team. I feel safer already. Mandatory vaccinations for children needed. If we leave things to HSE monitoring groups none of us will last long.
My kids are vaccinated, however I’m not and neither are loads of others in their 30s/40s who has asthma in the family. The mmr wasn’t recommended back then.
@Lily: you can still get the mmr as an adult?
@Michael Powell: are you telling us we can or asking if we can?
@Joey Navinski: sorry, I’m saying an adult can get the mmr as long as their not pregnant or have a compromised immune system.
@Lily: you’re being protected by the herd immunity brought on by a high uptake in vaccinations before imbeciles were allowed to upload and access rubbish on the Internet. Problem is, outbreaks like this are a sign that the herd immunity is breaking down.
@Lily: did you not have to get the rubella in primary school ?
This freaks me out as my son has only been vaccinated up to the six months and won’t get the MMR until 12 months outbreaks are scary especially when your child is at risk because of the stupidity of other parents not getting their kids vaccinated over a conspiracy theory which has been proven to be incorrect
@……: complete and utter rubbish.
Here’s 50 reasons not to vaccinate in which one of the found the same conclusions regarding the study you have mentioned but has been distorted in history like most things.
Attention Attention, the End is nigh. A few kids have measles………. What is that I hear you say?? We’ve always had measles. No, No, No you cant say that. It interferes with the agenda to force vaccines on the masses, even though there is no evidence they work or that there is improved health in vaccinated populations.. http://healthimpactnews.com/2014/dr-suzanne-humphries-on-vaccine-safety-they-dont-want-you-to-hear-the-other-side/print/ Study these graphs and the timelines if you want to see if vaccines got rid of measles. The data speaks for itself. http://www.dissolvingillusions.com/graphs/
@Ian Oh: ah here Ian, Suzanne Humphries, seriously? A woman who thinks almost every ailment is due to vitamin C deficiency. You need to try a bit harder.
@Pseud O’Nym: Have you researched the problems with vaccines or are you just spouting off for the sake of it??
@Pseud O’Nym: If there are inaccuracies in her data, point them out to me. Otherwise keep quiet. Name calling doesn’t cut it with me.
@Ian Oh:
We’ve always had me
@Ian Oh:
Yes we’ve always had measles, and lots of people died from it before vaccinations largely eliminated it (apart from a few isolated outbreaks like this caused by idiotic anti-vaxxers). What part of that are you struggling to understand??
@Walt Jabsco: Obviously you have never looked at the data. Just spouting the same tiresome and meaningless mantra. Vaccinations did not eliminate anything.
@Ian Oh:
So what do you think largely eradicated measles in areas where vaccination is the norm, and why is it still prevalent in areas where vaccination is rate?
VACCINATE YOUR BLOODY CHILDREN!
Can the state not forcibly inject the nations children with vaccines??
@Zach Addington: Afraid not.
@Richard Sweeney: I was being facetious.
Some very interesting reading: http://ahrp.org/former-merck-scientists-sue-merck-alleging-mmr-vaccine-efficacy-fraud/
Anti vaxer phuckwits should be removed from the general population and placed on an island together where they are free to infect each other and die off.
If you don’t vaccinate your children for any other reason than medical, you are clearly an uneducated idiot. You could kill your own children and unfortunately other people’s children because of your stupidity.
@Let free speech live: You support free speech but not freedom to informed consent???
@Ian Oh: Informed consent – looking at facts and drawing a reasonable conclusion. What reason other than medical deserves consideration?
@Sinéad Cronin: Risks and possible permanent damage to your child to gain what?? Probably nothing as from a lot of time spent researching vaccines, I have not yet found any solid proof of efficacy. Why, you ask??? Don’t get me started. I lost my youngest child from vaccine damage. There is no greater reason. End of. Read the information Inserts from any vaccine. They are scary stuff and the HSE does not give them to any parent so in essence there is no informed consent here in Ireland. Just bullying and taunting. Just like the majority of comments here on this article. Anyone who questions the validity of these things is mocked, taunted, bullied and called a lunatic. So much for reasonable discussion and the search for facts. It’s more like a mad religion, where you are not allowed dare ask any questions. It’s too late though. The mantra is not working in a lot of cases any more and there is a massive movement gaining momentum in search of facts that is unstoppable. Which I am pleased about. If I can save even 1 other child’s life from this unnecessary craziness (that’s the conclusion I have come to after a lot of research), it’ll be worth it.
@Ian Oh:
No solid proof of efficacy??
Now I’ve heard everything – have you lost your mind?
Have you any idea what the rates of smallpox, polio etc. were before vaccines against them were created?
@Walt Jabsco: yes I am well aware. Are you??
@Ian Oh: Sweet Jesus Ian Oh it would be funny if it wasn’t so bloody depressing. Walt mentioning the rates of Smallpox and polio shows the level of education being dealt with here.
Walt go research Leicester in England and Smallpox…. Because it was what they did there that eradicated the disease and absolutely nothing to do with the vaccine. In fact they had seen enough children dying from the vaccine that they took matters into their own hands.
And in regards to Polio, that was already well into eradication before the vaccine was being introduced. The deaths had already flatlined well before it’s introduction.
In fact the CDC just after put the eradication of both diseases down to Chlorinated Water….and advertised it as so. So when you say do we have any idea of rates of small pox and polio before vaccinations I will tell you not only are we are of them before, we’re aware of them during and after also.
Ps Scarlet Fever never had a vaccine made…guess what…it ain’t around no more !!!
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