Dept Of Health Confirms Suspected Measles

February 11, 2015

The Department of Health has confirmed that the Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit is investigating a suspected case of measles on the island, saying that “close contacts of that individual are being informed and advised.”

A spokesperson said, “No cases of measles have been identified in Bermuda since 1990. However, measles is still endemic in many parts of the world, and outbreaks can occur in Bermuda when unvaccinated groups are exposed to imported measles virus, of if susceptible individuals travel to areas where measles is occurring.

“The current outbreaks in parts of the United States pose a particular risk to Bermuda.

“Measles can cause serious complications such as pneumonia or encephalitis [inflammation of the brain] and prevention of infection is important. Fortunately, measles is a vaccine preventable disease.

“If you or your child has not been vaccinated against measles [MMR vaccine], contact your physician for advice. For measles vaccinations, children should visit their pediatrician or the Child Health Clinic, located at the Hamilton Health Centre, 67 Victoria Street, Hamilton.

“Assuring adequate protection from measles and other vaccine preventable diseases is especially important prior to travel abroad.

“For more information about travel vaccinations, contact the Travel Clinic at 278-6460 or check the website.”

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  1. Crazies says:

    People, vaccinate your kids!

  2. JB says:

    If you’re wondering who to blame for this, these people feature pretty high up the list:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Vaccine_Information_Center
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMR_vaccine_controversy

    • NationOfZombies says:

      Well that explains it all. If you are using wikipedia for your information may god help you. You are missing the larger picture by far.

      The practicers of the hegalian dialectic has you ensnared.

      “Tension, created by diversity, is essential to the dialectic process. It energizes members and — when manipulated by well-trained facilitators — produces synergy. You can’t guide people toward synthesis (compromise) unless there are opposing views — both “thesis and antithesis.” That’s why the consensus process must include all these elements:

      a diverse group
      dialoguing to consensus
      over a social issue
      led by a trained facilitator
      toward a pre-planned outcome.
      The true dialectic group never reaches a final consensus, for “continual change” is an ongoing process: one step today, another tomorrow. To permanently change the way we think and relate to each other, our leaders must set the stage for conflict and compromise week after week, year after year. Dialectical thinking and group consensus must become as normal as eating. Eventually, people learn to discard their old mental anchors and boundaries — all the facts and certainties that built firm convictions. They become like boats adrift, always ready to shift with the changing winds and currents.

  3. colourless says:

    This is craziness, when there is absolutely no need for there to be any cases at all.

    • NationOfZombies says:

      How do you mean? I find it interesting measles are making a return at about the same time a new round of “vaccinations” appear for them. HMMM? One can put that crap into your kid all you want. Have you actually seen the effects of Mercury (contained in most vaccines)on the neural synapses of the brain? Don’t believe me. Ask to see the full write up contained in the packaging of the product – it may shock you.

      Is no wonder why kids are so have so many neurological and autoimmune diseases nowadays. Watch Silent Epidemic. It may just sway your opinion on “vaccines”

      I suppose it is a coincidence that these diseases (autism most prevalent) just “happen” to coincide with increased “vaccination” programs over the past 3 decades.

      • OMG_Peeps says:

        @NationofZombies

        You are part of the problem. Since you are so adept at quoting wikipedia, you missed this article:

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiomersal_controversy

        I’m going to leave this here as well, just for comparisions sake, I find it very succinct:

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfdZTZQvuCo

        Basically, you don’t want to vaccinate…fine, go live alone in isolation. But don’t come around the rest of us with your disease/germ ridden selves…

        • NationOfZombies says:

          Idiot that was not a quote from wikipedia. I do not frequent that trash – nor should you.

          It is a quote on how the Hegelian dialectic work on people – especially ones such as yourself –

          Open your mind and read this – might just reveal to you how your masters have you shackled…it will not be easy as the truth doth hurt but it is always served best at any temperature.

          http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/brainwashing/dialectic.htm

          • OMG_Peeps says:

            I maintain that people like you present a very real danger to society. Between you and your hegelian theories and the other joker who thinks that polio was cured cause people are washing their hands more……shakes head.

            Again, feel free to live in an isolated community with all the other anti-vaccers.

          • Steph says:

            Please get sterilised so you don’t pass off your selfish attitude and wilful ignorance to another generation.

      • Nation of Science says:

        Thimerosal is not used in vaccines anymore. Even when it was, the amount of mercury in vaccines was less than the amount that naturally occurs in WATER. I’m guessing you drink water.

        The outbreaks of measles correspond to the anti-vaccine movement. I suggest listening to your doctor instead of Jenny McCarthy.

      • Family Man says:

        And did you know the gas Chlorine, that was used to deadly effect in WW1, is now creeping into your everyday life. They put chlorine products in your swimming pools, the government is encouraging you to pour it into your water tanks, even *** is using it on their french fries. It’s a conspiracy to reduce the population to a manageable size. Our government is killing us.

        I read it on Wikiidiota.

      • cole says:

        Your spreading nonsense is shameful.

      • Sandinthehourglass says:

        I feel very sorry for all of the children of parents who choose not to vaccinate them from preventable and dangerous viruses and disease. Measles, Mumps, Rubella can sometimes cause life changing damage. Think about how polio left so many crippled for life, and the death rate quite high before the vaccine. Anti-Vaccer’s as they call themselves have broken the ‘herd’ protection for the entire world actually. Even those that were vaccinated as children many years ago, may not still have full immunity and if exposed to these viruses, can get sick. One poorly done study and a whole heap of nutty people jumped on the bandwagon to blame thimersol (mercury) in vaccines for all kinds of things because they wanted to explain why their kids had autism and other concerning medical conditions. Everyone always look for something/someone to blame when things go wrong and that is somewhat understandable when it comes to our children… However thimersol is no longer used in vaccines and the studies have been disproven. There appears to be NO link between life saving vaccines and autism, autoimmune disorder etc. However, it is guaranteed that the more children (and adults) that catch these (once nearly erradicated) viruses will indeed die, or have debilitating, long lasting changes/disabiliites to their health. Vaccines do work and they are safe! How many of these new, media related alarming studies have we all experienced over the decades about the dangers of everything from the food we eat, the air we breathe, silicone, preservatives, cell phones, nutritional vitamins and supplements… it goes on forever! And usually within a few years, the studies that brought up the media furor are refuted.

        Say whatever you want. but I have had my kids vaccinated to protect them from these terrible illnesses and it saddens me that we all now have to worry about variant strains of these viruses and compromised immunity. Anti Vaccinators have had a very negative impact on the entire ‘herd’ on our planet.

      • SomeGuy says:

        //”Happen” to coincide with increased “vaccination”//
        Or maybe it happens to coincide with better understanding and case finding of autism?

        Maybe it’s to do with the diagnosis being applied more broadly than before, as a result of the changing definition of the disorder, particularly changes in DSM-III-R and DSM-IV.

        Maybe it’s to do with an editorial error in the description of the PDD-NOS category of Autism Spectrum Disorders in the DSM-IV, in 1994, which inappropriately broadened the PDD-NOS construct. The error was corrected in the DSM-IV-TR, in 2000, reversing the PDD-NOS construct back to the more restrictive diagnostic criteria requirements from the DSM-III-R.

        Also if you look at the statistics, you see that the rise in autism cases corresponds to a drop in findings of mental retardation. suggesting that what was once diagnosed as mental retardation is now being diagnosed as autism.

        • Creamy says:

          Now this is nonsense.
          There is an explosion of autism. It is real.

          • SomeGuy says:

            It may not be an explosion. It may have always been there and we’re either better at diagnosing it or the diagnostic criteria have changed to allow for more diagnoses (See my previous post).

            The rise in recorded occurrences of a disease does not necessarily indicate a rise in actual occurrences of a disease, especially not when it comes to mental disorders (which are diagnosed based on a set of changeable diagnostic criteria)

            • GoodIdeaBadIdea says:

              Not to put too broad a brush on it but when I was growing up, kids with “issues” ended up in one of two places. In “Special Education” or in a “Special School”. There wasn’t any diagnosis of “spectrum diseases”. You were either normal or you ended up lumped with all the other special kids.

              Now we are able to slice and dice every quirk, every abnormality, every mental issue and put it into a specific box and call it something.

              Whether there are more kids with autism spectrum issues or we just didn’t classify it as such 40-50 years ago is probably a lot of the difference.

      • Annie says:

        People make all kinds of claims as to the problem with vaccines with many people thinking it’s the biological agent that resembles the actual disease that’s the problem when indications are that’s it the mercury. Drug companies need to find another preservative for vaccines as it seem apparent that mercury is a problem. Scientists cannot prove that vaccines cause Autism, but it’s interesting that they can’t prove they don’t either. I agree with your last paragraph-the evidence seems to support rather than deny that vaccines contribute to Autism.

        • Do a little research ... says:

          Do a little research about the mercury in vaccines before you embarrass yourself with posts like this one.

          • Annie says:

            You are so condescending and rude. I stand by what I say. Scientists change their views on a range of topics every day. One day we’re told butter/eggs/coffee, etc. are bad for you, the next day they’re good for you. Drugs come out that are hailed a miracle drug, ten years after we’re told they actually gives you some adverse effect. Look at Thalidomide-how many expectant mothers were given that stuff only to give birth to babies with their hands growing out of their shoulders? Medical science is all trial and error and we are the guinea pigs. Some day scientists many very well conclude that vaccines cause Autism. More money is being pumped by drug companies to support the notion that vaccines are safe than to support that they are not. There’s no money being pumped into research to prove that vaccines cause Autism and that’s the real problem-how is that theory able to be proven without funding? It’s all about money and the pharmaceutical companies always win.

            • SomeGuy says:

              //One day we’re told butter/eggs/coffee, etc. are bad for you, the next day they’re good for you.//

              Actually i think you’ll find that the science here is pretty much unchanged. AFAIK the medical opinion is that all these things are alright for you IN MODERATION. Eating a fry up every day is still just as bad for you now as it was 20 years ago.

              //There’s no money being pumped into research to prove that vaccines cause Autism//

              that’s not how research works, if you set out to prove something your study is biased from the start. There have been an Enormous number of studies by an enormous number of professionals investigating the links between vaccines and autism. No link has ever been found. Now i’m sure you imagine this is some conspiracy among the entire medical profession. If you do fine, the papers are all available online, go have a look at them and see for yourself.

            • Santa Claus says:

              Ok, so lets assume you are correct about the vaccine causing autism. Although, I haven’ seen any peer-reviewed (aka non-nutjob) research on the current vaccine concluding this. So you don’t vaccinate your child and they end up dying from one of the mentioned diseases. Are you saying this is preferable to them being autistic? If so, you are a horrible parent. You may not want to get vaccinated but please don’t put your child’s life on the line because of nutjob theories.

              If you want a theory, try this:

              Parents who would rather put their child’s life on the line instead of the risk of autism (according to the theory) are not responsible enough to have children.

  4. Tisk. says:

    Travel ban on the unvaccinated?

    • serengeti says:

      In that case, why not provide the option for MMR to be given in three separate vaccines? I’d have paid extra for that, for the peace of mind.

      • Sandgrownan says:

        Because there’s no need. MMR is safe. Much safer than being unvacinated.

        The anti-vax lobby are a serious publci health concern.

        • serengeti says:

          But still, why not make it available in three separate doses? If the multiplication of 3 vaccines at once causes some reluctance, and it does, then why not have them available separately? The extra cost could be passed on to the patient.

          • everybodyvaccinateplease says:

            I have heard of people doing this in the US. Not sure about Bermuda. If that is the reason people aren’t vaccinating then the option to spread the vaccines out should be made available.

          • cole says:

            Because the call for 3 vaccines is from the anti-vax brigade of idiots, not any sensible informed group of citizens. There is no need to split the vaccines into 3 except to stir trouble among the easily misled.

            • Creamy says:

              They’re not “anti vax brigade”. They want the vaccines, but in three seperate doses.
              They’re not “idiots”. They are parents who want to minimise any risks, even remote ones, for their children.
              What’s the big deal? Just do them one at a time.

              • SomeGuy says:

                Like the risks of dying of measles?

                • Serengetiperson says:

                  I wasn’t suggesting no vaccinations. I was suggesting that parents have the option of having the vaccines one at a time.
                  That idea appears to be blowing the small minds of some people.

          • SomeGuy says:

            Because the 3 separate vaccines leave children vulnerable to the diseases for longer.

            • Creamy says:

              That doesn’t make any sense. Do them 4 weeks apart. In 8 weeks they’re all done.

            • Serengetiperson says:

              Start the process a month or so earlier than you would have started it. That way the patient is not ‘vulnerable to the disease for longer’.

          • Libby says:

            14 years ago we were given the choice and my son had two of the three (MMR) at his Doctor’s office, leaving the third to be given by the school nurse a week later…sadly the nurse at school gave my son the two he’d already had again…I wont go into details about what happened as a result but perhaps that is one of the reasons they don’t offer that option. I’m sure your pediatrician will work with you though.

            • Annie says:

              A similar thing happened with my daughter. I was terrified but thankfully nothing adverse happened.

            • Serengetiperson says:

              OK. Well that’s a case of medical malpractice.
              It’s really nothing to do with what I’m suggesting.
              Vaccinations shouldn’t be lumped together just to make it less likely that doctors will screw up.

      • Dan says:

        Because 3 separate vaccines leave a child unvaccinated for a longer period of time, during which time the child is at risk from contracting measles.
        On top of which changing vaccination schedules because of the antivaxxers set’s a dangerous precedent of changing public health policy, going against overwhelming evidence, in order to appease a group of people who get their science from jenny mccarthy.

        • Creamy says:

          The “taking too mch time” issue doesn’t make any sense. Even split up, they could be all done in a few weeks.
          This suggestion is not aimed at “antivaxxers”. It’s aimed at people who want to have the vaccnes one at a time, and who are willing to pay the extra cost involved.
          There is a demand, and public health policy should take that into account.

          • SomeGuy says:

            Really?? Doctors should take public opinion over scientific evidence when it comes to matters of public health?

            • Serengetiperson says:

              Public health policy should take into account the preferences of the patients. I don’t see that as being controversial at all.

              • SomeGuy says:

                You don’t see it as controversial to build public health policy around the opinions of the medically untrained populace rather than building around the opinions of medically trained professionals?

                What qualification does the average person have that means they are in any way suited to determine public health policy?

  5. Pay attention folks! smarten up! says:

    vaccinations also inexplicably KILL peole, sterilize them, and much more.

    wanna get vaccinated? some people drop dead after the needle is injected. Wanna risk that? you wanna be the odd one out who drops>?

    It has been known for decades that population reduction will be implemented via sterilizations by vaccinations. It was done decades ago in studies, documented, publically known as fact know, and is happening still, but classified.

    have fun! i warned you!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  6. Pay attention folks! smarten up! says:

    people got their heads in the sand.
    such ostriches don’t see the bus coming!

    it is legal to give mass sterilizations without public knowledge or consent. THIS IS LAW. Check your facts people! You live in a dream world! Get out of the bubble! This is real!

    Remember, Bermuda does not produce the vaccines. They buy them.

    American government has documented cases where it sterilized entire TOWNS of civilians, as part of an experiment. They have also laced water supplies with various chemicals and drugs, even LSD, in the name of science and politics.

    You wont see me take some poison vaccine.

    You people need education. Measles is not the disaster they make it out to be! Everyone survives chicken pox! People die from the flu, but are we gonna run to flue vaccines like mad ants?

    FEAR MONGERING leads to submissiveness!

    dont be submissive and gullible!

  7. Um Jus Sayin' says:

    I feel that ppl who are not vaccinated and have not vaccinated their children should not be allowed to travel, as that poses a threat to others. Those who are should have a special card that states they are safe to travel included with their passport. I just find it sad that ppl are so willing to risk the health of their children and other ppl.

  8. Just Saying says:

    Vaccinations don’t prevent disease, FYI. Vaccinations just makes it so IF you ever contract the disease your symptoms won’t be as “bad” as a person who is unvaccinated. Unvaccinated people are not the problem, disease is. If a person is vaccinated they don’t need to fear a person who is unvaccinated. Disease epidemics happen like colds and flu happen. You can be vaccinated for the flu and still get it and give it to someone else.

    While I KNOW measles and other diseases are REAL lets be sensible and use better health practices: washing hands, wiping down surfaces properly, if you are sick lets not go hacking, coughing, snotting and sneezing all over the place unless you are going to the hospital or doctor, etc.

      • Just Saying says:

        I worked in a pharmaceutical lab synthesizes drugs…vaccinations do NOT prevent. If they did, then people who are vaccinated would have no need to worry about those who are unvaccinated. The playing the blame game of vaccinated vs. unvaccinated is just fear-mongering ..that is, if vaccines really prevent…

        • NationOfZombies says:

          Exactlty Just Saying – forgetting the underlying motive of Vaccines – profits NOT HEALTH!!!

          It is amusing how easily sheep are led astray.

          • SomeGuy says:

            Wouldn’t it be more profitable for the pharmaceutical companies to come up with a treatment that doesn’t give you an immunity?

            Vaccines are really not huge money makers for pharmaceutical companies, they’re one or 2 doses and done.

        • OMG_Peeps says:

          Vaccines ready your immune system to deal with the various diseases that they ward against. I’ve seen first hand the difference between someone who has been vaccinated as opposed to someone who hasn’t, in the same time frame with them being in close contact with each other. While yes a vaccinated person can get a symptom, for example “A” chicken pox or two. Your system is able to fight it off without having contracted the disease/virus/whatever.

          Fear mongering??? Have you ever spoken to anyone who has had one of these diseases, especially in their adult life? I have and you can bet they had wished they were. While I am vaccinated (thank god!), I don’t have a real worry for those who aren’t, the main concern is that people who can’t get the vaccine yet, young children, people in poorer or under-developed countries, etc. Yes due to vaccines, there is a herd immunity, and now people that is being compromised by people with their pseudo-science, gullible, fear mongering, conspiracy theorists who are causing more harm than they realise.

          But don’t take my word for it, this makes an interesting read:

          http://www.voicesforvaccines.org/growing-up-unvaccinated/

        • Toodle-oo says:

          Then how does one explain the virtual eradication of Polio after the vaccine and how the only places it ever showed up since are where they’ve lagged behind in the programme ?

          • Just Saying says:

            Polio, like every other disease, is just an infectious disease…I’m not discounting they are contagious and fatal, because they can be!! The apparent “eradication” can oxcur with improvement of hygiene practices in some areas, as well as building up ones immune response to any disease. People are starting to live healthier lifestyles (eating better and excercising). The occurrence can diminish in a community as a whole, with very few cases, if any.

            Who is to say they are eradicated? I read an article, that some of these disease are still around, but due to their diminished frequency in the community they are misdiagnosed sometimes as other things.

            • cole says:

              Flu mutates constantly which means new vaccines each year. Most diseases have been successfully controlled by vaccination in the developed world. Washing your hands isnt going to prevent measles or many other diseases spreading.

        • Ann says:

          I hope we get it together and ban children from school if you haven’t been vacinated ! Bet the school boards are talking about it now!

        • everybodyvaccinateplease says:

          I am vaccinated, so I am not worried. However, I am worried for the 5 month old baby who can’t be vaccinated till they are 12 months old. I am worried for the cancer patients whose immune systems are depleted due to radiation therapy who cannot fight off these disease.

          The only way people like this are protected are through herd immunity. Herd immunity is beginning to fail with so many choosing to forego vaccinations.

        • SomeGuy says:

          So all those doctors at the CDC are lying??

          //I worked in a pharmaceutical lab synthesizes drugs//

          You’ll forgive me if i don’t take you at your word. What exactly where you doing in the pharmaceutical lab? Researcher? Lab Tech? Janitor?
          If you’re a researcher then what was your field? Were you involved in the actual chemical formulation? The clinical trials? the production process?

          //people who are vaccinated would have no need to worry about those who are unvaccinated//

          You make 2 incorrect assumptions. Firstly not everyone can be vaccinated, Some people have actual medical reasons (immunocompromization etc.) why they cannot be vaccinated.
          Secondly not everyone vaccinated develops an immunity. After the first MMR jab 95% of the recipients develop an immunity. After the Second MMR jab is given this figure rises to > 99%. This still leaves people who do not have an immunity.
          That is how your ignorance could pose a threat to people who chose to get vaccinated or are actually physically unable to get vaccinated.

          It’s somewhat puzzling that you claimed to have worked in a “pharmaceutical lab” yet seem to lack even the most basic understanding of how vaccines work.

          • Just Saying says:

            I didn’t say CDC was lying. Attempting to verify my credentials to everyone on the board, wouldn’t mean anything to anyone in reality. But for the sake of it, I was actually a researcher in an organic chemistry lab and then a biochemical lab. But still you would have to take my word for it…

            You actually took one of my comments out of contex:

            I said: //If they [vaccinations] did [prevent disease], then people who are vaccinated would have no need to worry about those who are unvaccinated//

            I never made reference to those who are unable to be vaccinated nor those who never develop an immunity. Also the post actually speaks (minimally) about the purpose of vaccinations are to build ones immunity to the disease.

      • NationOfZombies says:

        You do not get it Using the CDC as a source is like asking Satan if he means you well.

        Useful idiot who will believe whatever “fact” they read. The problem friend is the people in charge of the “facts” or can you not think abstractly. Go back to your GMO Monsanto says it is good for you.

        • OMG_Peeps says:

          Me thinks this guys tin foil hat is on a wee bit too tight.

        • SomeGuy says:

          Ok, how about using the huge volume of peer reviewed scientific studies on PubMed as a source?

      • Just Saying says:

        Also, I read the link…the title is MISLEADING to say the least. It discusses that it will build up the immunity of the person for that particular disease. So that IN THE EVENT the person contacts the disease, the body will already have the antibodies to fight it off, instead of having to create the antibodies from scratch. That’s not prevention…

    • Annie says:

      Exactly! Many claim that vaccines have ‘saved the world’ when really improved hygiene actually has. There was a time when doctors would do surgery on diseased people or handle dead bodies and then go and deliver babies without washing their hands-they just didn’t understand the connection when those same babies died. Doctors didn’t understand that they needed to do things like wear masks when around sick people, and when they did start wearing masks, they covered their mouths but not their noses!

      Medicine has come a long way and hygienic practices have come a long way-the improvement in hygiene, especially in the medical community, is what has cut down on disease in the modern world, not vaccinations. If hygiene could be improved in developing countries, the level of disease would plummet, even without vaccinations and that is a fact.

      BTW-I’m in my early 40′s and I can remember going to the dentist when I was little and the dentist didn’t wear gloves or a mask. Likewise, when I first started going to the doctor for that annual ladies checkup the doctor didn’t wear gloves-he’d just wash his hands before and after the examination. All of this is recent history so even in that period standards have improved.

      • OMG_Peeps says:

        aaaannnd here’s your stamp

      • Harry Buttle says:

        And back 40 years ago there wasn’t a real risk that a patient might have HIV. Dentists routinely deal with blood due to the nature of their job and changes in workplace safety have dictated that they need to protect themselves. Improved hygiene won’t stop the spread of a virus like measles or mumps which can spread in developed countries as easily as it can in underdeveloped ones.

        We take our fortunate place for granted after the drives in the 50s, 60s and 70s to get everyone vaccinated who could be.

        • Annie says:

          When I was a child, AIDS was around-it was just coming to the attention of the mainstream but it was known about. When I was a teenager, it was well known and even then dentists didn’t wear gloves. Besides AIDS, there were still other diseases to worry about, such as Hepatitis. Even as a young adult in the mid 90′s when AIDs was definitely on the radar, my doctor didn’t use gloves for exams.

          Improved health and sanitation has mad a huge contribution to the reduction in a range of diseases. Improved hygiene habits make a big difference in something as basic as boosting one’s immune system to help you repel diseases. Not everyone exposed to every disease out there catches it and individual immune systems play a big part.

          A person in the West undoubtedly has a much stronger immune system than a person in a third-world country. If you have to drink dirty water and live in crowed conditions, often with livestock under your roof, you will be more prone to diseases. In the West, there was a time that we lived in abysmal conditions as well. For example, everyone in a family shared cups or utensils without washing them. If one person got sick, it was easier for the whole family to get sick. People would care for a sick person and it didn’t occur to them to wash their hands afterwards.

          We now know better and don’t do those things. All of that has contributed to a reduction of a host of diseases and that’s a fact. Heck, it’s basic common sense. If hygiene and sanitation can be improved in third-world countries it would make a huge difference in the reduction of the spread of disease.

  9. Terry says:

    Simple truth is that there are people out there that still have it and they refuse to get vaccinated and their children.

    It does not grow on trees.

  10. common Sense says:

    Zombie Has it occurred to you why the deaths in children has been so drastically reduced since the introduction of vaccines preventing awful diseases such as diphtheria, measles, tetanus and whooping cough. You will note that there have been no deaths from smallpox since the early 1980s. This is a result of vaccination. You will also note that the doctor (Wakefield) who wrote the paper in The Lancet connecting autism to the MMR vaccine was struck off for falcifying evidence. Subsequent studies have found no evidence for this

  11. Jr Smith says:

    trust your government people, we know whats best for you….lol….

    • SomeGuy says:

      Don’t trust anyone, read the medical studies yourself. They’re all available online. This isn’t some conspiracy. Vaccines save lives.

  12. Keepin' it Real!...4Real! says:

    ohhhh boy….i cannot believe the hype…majority of you all have been raised in a dystopian society wherein advertising, commercialism, and cultural anti-intellectualism have run rampant and dysgenic pressure has resulted in a uniformly unthinking society devoid of intellectual curiosity, social responsibility, and coherent notions of justice and human rights.

    vaccine is the actual virus injected into you so that your own immune system can develop the anti-bodies for the said virus…this goes a lot further than what you can fathom…diseases= no such thing…viruses ALL created by MAN in a LABORATORY for PROFITS ONLY…If you think your “Dr.” or “health care”, professional actually really care about your well being….just tell them on your next “scheduled” visit that you no longer have insurance or you cannot pay them…then see how lovely they are…this is a forum that needs public attention because far too many of us bermudians are too uninformed because of the misinformed and doing it here is hard to show literature or video data of the controversial “SUPPRESSED INFORMATION”…but then again…i don’t think ya’ll could handle the TRUTH, better YOU stay in your little comfort zone designated for you by SOMEONE ELSE…you have a brain OPEN IT.

    • SomeGuy says:

      //viruses ALL created by MAN in a LABORATORY for PROFITS ONLY//

      How do you explain the occurrence of viral disease before the development of genetic modification, the discovery of DNA or even the discovery of Viruses?

    • OMG_Peeps says:

      You are aware that things like chicken pox, measles and all of the other virus’ were around hundreds of years before even the concept of vaccines were thought of….right?

      So you’re saying that doctors shouldn’t be paid? Try not paying the guy who picks up your trash or waits your table or or drives your bus and see how they really care for your well being. SO what they are human like the rest of us and this argument has absolutely no basis in the topic of vaccines….

      Oh and Here’s your sign as well.

  13. Proper statistics says:

    Rate of death from mmr is 3 in 20 years. Rate from mmr vaccine is 180.

  14. SomeGuy says:

    Even the Amish vaccinate their kids.
    Antivaxxers actually have a worse grasp of science than people who spend their entire lives pretending it’s 1820.

  15. Future says:

    The Vaccinated Spreading Measles: WHO, Merck, CDC Documents Confirm

    http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/vaccinated-spreading-measles-who-merck-cdc-documents-confirms?page=1