USA Today- HIB infection

[sassyaztec]

My husband saw this today and I found it online here.

Didn't see it posted here, so thought I'd start a thread. delete if I missed it somewhere...

My hubby was all up in arms- poorly written! no facts! Lame test sample! What a joke! I trained him well

[carriebft]

they are a little behind the ball there...most major papers were carrying that story weeks ago! then again, it is USA today...

[Ophelia]

If they had really done their research for the article, they would have found that there is a very good indication that breastfeeding helps protect against Hib. But, no. Just scaremonger and guilt-trip.

[chevy974]

yes, I just watched it on MSNBC.com it was a terrible broadcast....

Amy

[Da WIC Lady]

I love the comments like "If someone's unvaxed kid causes a partially vaxed kid to die the parents should go to jail" Like communicable disease mainfests from out of nothing... : Maybe go after the person that infected the unvaxed kid to begin with, or the person that infected that person, or the person that infected the one before that? How rediclious! It makes me sad to see how utterly stupid people can be when they are insecure in their decisions and can't admit they might be wrong.

[kiara7]

5 cases in 3 years, 2 out of 5 vaccinated. Almost half is vaxed.

And why do they show some lady who didn't vax her son, but probably didn't bf either as some kind of an expert?

Anyway, that's old news...

[phrogger]

Why aren't they really bringing up the fact that obviously the vaccine didn't work IF there were kids who were vaccinated that got it anyway.

And 5 kids out of 3 years in one state. Seems like not some scary epidemic. Now how many kids in that same state had reactions to the vaccines?

My step son had the CP vaccine, my boys didn't. All 3 got CP at the same time. The ONLY reason I was even remotely worried was my good friend came over and she was pg and had never had CP herself. I wasn't worried about my boys, I was worried about HER. She ran to her OB had a titer done and sure enough, she had a natural immunity or at least she had it at some point with no symptoms. So obviously the vaccine didn't work for my step son and it had only been 6 years since he had gotten his vaccine, so not like 10 or 15 years.

My boys case was alittle worse, BUT they lived, no big deal, it just sucked because it was over the summer, they wished it had happened during the school year to get a week out of school.

[carriebft]

3 were unvaxed, 1 had 2 doses (so partially vaxed) and the last was fully vaccinated but had hypogammaglobulinemia so that vax did him no good.

[MyBoysBlue]

Originally Posted by phrogger

My boys case was alittle worse, BUT they lived, no big deal, it just sucked because it was over the summer, they wished it had happened during the school year to get a week out of school.

Talk about a sucky time to get it. I got it during Christmas break. We had one huge Pox party with all my cousins, all 10 + of us at the time.