W.Va. Lawmakers Field Vaccine Exemption Concerns..

[Indi Guy]

Source: Associated Press/Herald-Dispatch

WHEELING, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia lawmakers are looking at what parents go through to have their children exempted from vaccinations.

A Senate-House health committee focused Thursday on medical exemptions from immunizations required before children can attend school.

The committee heard from Ohio and Marshall counties parents who described how medical issues made vaccines dangerous to their children.

One child has a dairy allergy. He was removed from his sixth grade class for six weeks after being denied an exemption. The other child has an auto-immune disorder and was threatened with removal from kindergarten. Each eventually received an exemption, though one’s is only temporary...

Read more: http://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/briefs/x1117694018/W-Va-lawmakers-field-vaccine-exemption-concerns

[pnwmom]

1. They have to have some method since there are some children

with health issues that warrant delaying or even going without certain vaccines.

[Jerry442]

2. I wonder. Is this a sincere effort to accomodate kids with unusual but real problems...

...or a Trojan Horse for the anti-vaxxers?

[arikara]

3. A trojan horse?

I sometimes wonder if all the dopes who go on about anti vaxers are paid to rant inanities and disrupt threads. Although I usually don't bother saying anything.

[cosmicone]

5. Anti-vaxxers are as ignorant as teabaggers

who believe President Obama is a muslim socialist born in Kenya.

Only a certificate by a board certified pediatrician should be grounds for an exemption and nothing else.

The anti-vaxxers threaten the health of their children and the community as a whole by creating reservoir pockets for carriers with no science backing up their beliefs -- just stupidity from the likes of Jenny McCarthy and Oprah, neither of whom ever went to medical school.

[on point]

6. Anti vaxers should be quarantined in their house to protect kids with real issues

These kids with real issues like the immune problem need exemptions, but they also need everyone else who can be vaccinated done in order to protect them as we'll.

The anti Vaxers are ignorant, gullible selfish fools and ought to be locked up in their homes until they are safe to be out (ie got all the vaccinations or lived through all the diseases so they are no longer a threat to others)

[dem in texas]

4. You wonder why people don't vaccinate their kids

Young adults don't really understand how dangerous these childhood diseases can be. The sickest I was ever in my childhood was when I had the red measles. I remember my mother crying and the doctor coming to our house. I am old enough to remember kids in school who had hearing loss, vision and heart damage from having the red measles. When I was about 8, one of our neighbors had an 18 month old had whopping cough and almost died. A short time later, another kid down the block had a secondary infection caused by chicken pox and he was very ill and had to hospitalized.

Every summer, everyone lived in fear of polio. One of the greatest things was in the mid 1950's when the first polio vaccine was available. The buses picked the kids up at school and off we went to the health dept to get our vaccination. Everyone was so thankful.

In the late 1960's, before the vaccine for German measles, a woman who was pregnant had a good chance of having a baby with birth defects if she got the German measles in the first trimester. In the 1970's, when the vaccine became available for the German measles, the heath department held night clinics with free vaccinations. I made sure I got both my daughters to the clinic to get their shots.

I have a severe allergy to milk, that didn't stop my mother from getting me the shots when I was a kid. I ready that book about the people who won't get their kids vaccinated. It's crazy, they want to listen to an ex-Playboy Bunny tell them what to do and some doctor who has been totally discredited.

[alp227]

7. Herd immunity outweighs "my body, my choice"

due to the risk of spreading deadly disease, unless a doctor (not named Wakefield) can certify the child can NOT be vaccinated.