An Update on Previous Posts About Vaccination

I've blogged about this issue in the past - no, I doubt that vaccines are responsible for autism, but I do believe that inoculating pre-school children with the high number of vaccines on the schedule is probably not in that particular child's best interest.

The recommended schedule for children - check out the large number of vaccines, and particularly the number given when the kid is only 2 months.

Both doctors and the CDC strongly discourage alternative scheduling (designed to reduce the number of vaccines in a single visit). They admit that they do so to improve the chances that all shots will be given, not because it's better for the child to be given so many different vaccines at one time.

But, some of these don't make sense - IF the kid is not in a group child care setting.

I looked up one of the diseases on the schedule - Rotavirus. I'd not heard of it before (link to CDC site).

Rotavirus was the leading cause of severe diarrhea among infants and young children in the United States before rotavirus vaccine was introduced in 2006. Prior to vaccine introduction, almost all U.S. children were infected with rotavirus before their 5th birthday. Each year, among U.S. children younger than 5 years of age, rotavirus led to

• more than 400,000 doctor visits,
• more than 200,000 emergency room visits,
• 55,000 to 70,000 hospitalizations, and
• 20 to 60 deaths.

Globally, rotavirus is still the leading cause of severe diarrhea in infants and young children. In 2013, rotavirus caused an estimated 215,000 deaths worldwide in children younger than 5 years old.

Those most at risk?

Among U.S. children, those in child care centers or other settings with many young children are most at risk for infection.  

So, it's really mostly because kids are in day care that this disease has become so widespread.

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