#mmr vaccination

[sid-health-care-blog]

MMR VACCINE AND ITS IMPORTANCE

The MMR vaccine is a combination shot that protects against three different diseases: measles, mumps and rubella.

The MMR vaccine is one of the most effective and safe vaccines available today. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that children get two doses of the MMR vaccine — the first dose at 12 through 15 months of age, and the second dose at 4 through 6 years of age.

There are many reasons why it's important to get your child vaccinated on time. Here are just a few:

MMR vaccinations protect against serious diseases that can lead to hospitalization or even death. When a disease like measles spreads in unvaccinated populations, anyone can get sick — including babies too young to be vaccinated and people with weakened immune systems.

MMR vaccinations protect against dangerous diseases like measles, mumps and rubella that once caused children to suffer high fevers, painful swelling of glands near their ears or eyes, seizures and even death. These diseases have been largely eliminated thanks to immunization programs; however, they continue to circulate in other parts of the world where vaccination rates are low because of poor access to health care services or misinformation about vaccines' safety or effectiveness.

MMR (Measles, Mumps and Rubella) is a combined vaccine that protects against three infectious diseases: measles, mumps and rubella.

Measles is a highly infectious viral disease that can lead to serious health complications such as pneumonia, brain damage and death.

Mumps causes painful swelling of the glands in the cheeks, neck and underarms which can last up to 10 days. It can also cause testicular inflammation (orchitis).

Rubella, also known as German measles, is a mild viral illness that causes a rash on the face and body. It's usually only seen in pregnant women who don't realise they've been infected.

MMR vaccine prevents infection with these three viruses.

The MMR vaccine is a combination vaccine that protects against three separate diseases: measles, mumps and rubella. MMR is one of the vaccines recommended by the National Immunization Program.

Measles is a highly contagious respiratory disease that causes fever, rash and other symptoms. It can lead to pneumonia, encephalitis (inflammation of the brain) and death. Measles has been eliminated from the United States since 2000; however, it can still be imported from other countries. In 2016, about 85% of cases in the United States were imported from overseas or acquired after exposure to an international traveler with measles.

Mumps causes painful swelling of one or both parotid glands (glands located behind each ear). Other symptoms include fever and headache. Mumps can lead to complications such as meningitis and encephalitis (inflammation of the brain). The mumps component of MMR is not given alone because it does not reliably protect against mumps infection if someone has already had mumps disease.

[vaccinelaw]

If you or a loved one has suffered Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP) or other blood disorders caused by MMR,. call us today to receive a consultation. Individuals diagnosed with ITP following an MMR immunization may be entitled to financial compensation for their medical bills, loss of income, pain, and suffering, and other losses. Symptoms of ITP can include easy or excessive bruising, bleeding gums, nose bleeds, blood in the stool or urine, and unusually-heavy menstrual flow. There is evidence to suggest that ITP may also result from COVID-19 vaccination. Treatment options for ITP include corticosteroids, immunosuppressant medications, intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG), platelet transfusions, and thrombopoietin receptor agonist medications. Individuals who have been diagnosed with ITP after an MMR vaccine may be able to receive financial compensation through the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) or by filing a claim in state court. To learn more about consultation with vaccine law.

See More: https://vaccinelaw.com/lawyer/-Idiopathic-Thrombocytopenic-Purpura-(ITP)-Vaccine-Injury-Attorney_cp20495.htm

[feminist-space]

The swelling's not so bad.

It's the severe testicular pain...

Mumps means 9 days in isolation.

No parties. No friends. No classes.

Intense pain in cheeks and throat.

Difficulty chewing of swallowing

Weakness. Fever.

In some cases, severe pain and swelling of the testicles and ovaries.

Mumps can cause sterility, meningitis, and deafness.

The MMR vaccine provides the best protection against mumps.

Protect yourself against mumps.

Get VACCINATED.

Adapted with permission from the Province of Nova Scotia Department of Health and Wellness

For more information, call 2-1-1 or visit https://health.hawaii.gov

[emperornorton47]

[incorrectskyrimquotes]

reminder that antivaxxers began out of a hatred for autistic people.

[tomorrowusa]

Republicans are soft on disease control. We all remember the MAGA anti-vaccine hysteria when the COVID-19 vaccines became available.

They are now turning their attention to the polio vaccine which was approved for use in the US on 12 April 1955. The number of polio cases in the US dropped from 57,879 in 1952 to 910 in 1962 and became rare by the early 1970s.

Thanks to anti-vaxxing conspiracy crackpots, polio returned to the US for the first time in three decades in 2022.

New Hampshire Republicans want to weaken vaccination requirements to kowtow to anti-science elements in their state.

New Hampshire could soon beat Florida—known for its anti-vaccine Surgeon General—when it comes to loosening vaccine requirements. A first-in-the-nation bill that’s already passed New Hampshire’s state House, sponsored only by Republican legislators, would end the requirement for parents enrolling kids in childcare to provide documentation of polio and measles vaccination. New Hampshire would be the only state in the US to have such a law, although many states allow religious exemptions to vaccine requirements.  Currently, Republicans control New Hampshire’s state House, Senate and governor’s office—but that isn’t a guarantee that the bill will be signed into law, with GOP Gov. Chris Sununu seemingly flip-flopping when it comes to disease control. Sununu did sign a bill in 2021 allowing people to use public places and services even if they did not receive the Covid-19 vaccine. But the next year, the governor vetoed a bill that would bar schools from implementing mask mandates.  The polio vaccine, first offered in 1955, and the MMR shot, which treats the highly infectious measles, mumps, and rubella viruses, are two very crucial vaccines both in the US and internationally. Since the year 2000 alone, vaccines against measles are estimated to have saved over 55 million lives around the world.  [ ... ] Vaccine hesitancy is rising among parents of young children. A 2023 survey from the Pew Research Center found that around half of parents with kids four or younger thought that not all standard childhood vaccines—a list that also includes hepatitis B, rotavirus, DTaP and chickenpox—may be necessary. Anti-vaccine misinformation plays a role in this phenomenon, which began before the Covid-19 pandemic, but has certainly increased since. In a 2019 UK report, about 50 percent of parents of young kids encountered false information about vaccines on social media. 

Gov. Chris Sununu is a spineless putz. In some ways he's like Lindsey Graham who likes to send smoke signals of independent thinking but always comes crawling home to Daddy Donald.

Sununu campaigned for Nikki Haley and blamed Trump for January 6th. But that hasn't stopped him from endorsing Trump anyway. Instigating a coup d'état does not disqualify somebody from the presidency in Sununu's opinion.

GOP's Chris Sununu tries, fails to defend his Trump endorsement

Sununu may do for polio in New Hampshire what Trump did for COVID in the entire US in 2020.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Julia Métraux at Mother Jones:

New Hampshire could soon beat Florida—known for its anti-vaccine Surgeon General—when it comes to loosening vaccine requirements. A first-in-the-nation bill that’s already passed New Hampshire’s state House, sponsored only by Republican legislators, would end the requirement for parents enrolling kids in childcare to provide documentation of polio and measles vaccination. New Hampshire would be the only state in the US to have such a law, although many states allow religious exemptions to vaccine requirements. 

Currently, Republicans control New Hampshire’s state House, Senate and governor’s office—but that isn’t a guarantee that the bill will be signed into law, with GOP Gov. Chris Sununu seemingly flip-flopping when it comes to disease control. Sununu did sign a bill in 2021 allowing people to use public places and services even if they did not receive the Covid-19 vaccine. But the next year, the governor vetoed a bill that would bar schools from implementing mask mandates.  The polio vaccine, first offered in 1955, and the MMR shot, which treats the highly infectious measles, mumps, and rubella viruses, are two very crucial vaccines both in the US and internationally. Since the year 2000 alone, vaccines against measles are estimated to have saved over 55 million lives around the world. 

The CDC recommends that kids get their first dose of MMR vaccine between 12 and 15 months of age, and a first dose of the polio vaccine at around two months old. All states currently require children to have at least started vaccination against measles and polio in order to enroll in childcare, according to the nonprofit Immunize.org. A CDC report found that for the 2021-2022 school year, around 93 percent of children had received the MMR and polio vaccines by the time they entered kindergarten. That figure drops to less than 80 percent for both vaccines—the lowest rate in the country—in Alaska, where a measles outbreak could be devastating.  Rises in anti-vaccine sentiments have largely been linked to concerns that vaccines cause health issues, like the debunked claim that the MMR vaccine leads to kids being autistic. What parents may want to keep in mind is that polio and measles themselves are disabling conditions: according to the World Health Organization, 1 in 200 polio infections leads to irreversible paralysis. Children who get measles can experience symptoms including swelling of the brain. Death is always a possibility, too.  [...]

The bill would strike language requiring that immunization records be submitted to childcare agencies, but would keep those requirements for students enrolling in kindergarten through 12th grade. As of 2022, according to the nonprofit ChildCare Aware of America, there are some 700 licensed childcare centers and homes in New Hampshire (which doesn’t require the Covid-19 vaccine for enrollment in childcare, either, despite its efficiency in reducing both death rates and acute symptoms). 

New Hampshire could be the first state to repeal polio and measles vaccination requirements for children with HB1213. This is a consequence of the GOP's pandering to anti-vaxxer extremist neanderthals in recent years. #NHLeg

[words-writ-in-starlight]

You know, I always assumed hags were a distinct kind of creature. Like a trout. Or a horse. Or a dragon.

This whole situation is increasingly making me wonder if maybe hag-ness is just catching.

[dilfsisko]

99% sure my area is gearing up for a measles outbreak

[sarahlizziewrites]

Took the RAADS-R and yeah, surprising no one (except my mother who was always desperate for me to be a normal kid), I am autistic

I got 100 (boom, aced it) - which is a slightly less than average score, so I have a form of (pretty understandably undetectable) sub-clinical autism

My score on the language and social sections was actually in the neurotypical range, which tracks, but I scored pretty high on the sensory and special interest section, which... welcome to my blog

[freelemmingsdownload]

sucking the autism out of his dick

[mcelquotes]

The truth doesn't have two sides.

Justin McElroy

[keelanrosa]

terfs when a study shows literally anything positive about trans people/transitioning: 'hm i think this requires some fact-checking. Were those researchers REALLY unbiased? Because if they were biased this doesn't count and if they weren't knowingly biased they probably were unconsciously biased, woke media affects so much these days. Have there been any other studies on this? Because if there haven't been this could be an outlier and if there have been and they all agree that's a bit odd, why aren't there any outliers, and if there have been and any disagree we really won't know the truth until we very thoroughly analyze them all, will we? Were there enough subjects for a good sample size? Did every single subject involved stay involved through the whole study because if they didn't we should be sure nothing shady was going on resulting in people dropping out. Are we 110% sure all the subjects were fully honest and at no point were embarrassed or afraid to admit they didn't love transitioning to the people in charge of their transition? Are we 110% sure none of the subjects were manipulated into thinking they were happy with their transition? In fact we should double-check what they think with their parents, because if the subjects and their parents disagree it's probably because they've been manipulated but their cis parents have not and are very unbiased. How many autistic subjects were there because if there weren't enough then this doesn't really study the overlap between autistic and trans and if there were too many then we just don't know enough about what causes that overlap to be sure this study really explains being trans and isn't just about being autistic. How many AFAB subjects were there because if there weren't enough this is just another example of prioritizing AMAB people and ignoring the different struggles of girls and women and if there were too many how do we know sexism didn't affect the results. Was the study double-blinded? We all know double-blinded is the most reliable so if this one wasn't that's a point against it even if the thesis literally physically could not be double-blinded. Look i'm not being transphobic, i want what's best for trans people! Really! But as a person who is not trans and therefore objective in a way they cannot possibly be, i just think we should only take into account Good Science here. You want to be following science and not being manipulated or experimented upon by something unscientific, right?'

terfs when they see a study of 45 subjects so old it predates modern criteria for gender dysphoria and basically uses 'idk her parents think she's too butch', run by a guy who practiced conversion therapy, 'confirmed' by a guy who treated the significant portion of subjects who didn't follow up as all desisting, definitely in the category of 'physically cannot double-blind this', completely contradicted by multiple other studies done on actual transgender subjects, but can be kinda cited as evidence against transitioning if you ignore everything else about it: 'oOOH SEE THIS IS WHAT WE'RE TALKIN BOUT. SCIENCE. Just good ol' unbiased thorough analysis. I see absolutely no reason to dig any deeper on this and if you think it's wrong you're the one being unscientific. It's really a shame you've been so thoroughly brainwashed by the trans agenda and can't even accept science when you see it. Maybe now that someone has finally uncovered this long-lost study from 1985, we can make some actual progress on the whole trans problem.'

[xcziel]

man i am really starting to wonder if this vaccination site in my upper arm is infected

it's been three days and the site is red and hot to the touch and there's a big solid lump under the skin a couple inches in diameter

no other symptoms besides pain like a bruise and that tight hot feeling you get from tissue swelling

i've had pain and swelling at the injection site before but not to the degree that i'm conscious of the area feeling hot at all times

it's very disconcerting

[tomorrowusa]

Measles is making a comeback. Part of the reason is the rise of the anti-vax movement. But also, kids who normally would have gotten vaccinated with the MMR vaccine never got their shots because of pandemic disruptions to regular healthcare.

New cases have just been identified in California and Ohio.

First measles case since 2020 confirmed in L.A. County. Here are steps to prevent exposure

Ohio health officials confirm first measles case in 2024

Measles is far more contagious than COVID. Though vaccination has drastically reduced the number of Americans who contracted it since the 1960s. If for some reason you never got the MMR vaccine, this would be an excellent time to get it.

Never mind anti-vaxxers like RFK Jr. who are preaching quack medicine for political gain. Get the MMR shot and make sure kids you're responsible for get it as well.