Thread: Vaccinations

Originally Posted by Grumbles

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Yep...I'm over 70 so will be lining up for the free vaccination. If I'd know about it I would gladly have paid the $220 for the vaccine when in my 60s due to having had chicken pox when I was a kid.

I'm not sure just when it became available in Australia - it seems to have been developed around 2004-5.

Shingles is awful. Feel for you.

RE Shingles
latest shingles vaccine is more than 90 percent effective



I had to Check- we have the good stuff for youVaricella Zoster Virus Recombinant Vaccine: injection [1 vial] & adjuvant substance diluent [0.5 mL vial], 1 pack; Shingrix^®


Re measles
Samoa toll is over 53 dead now

Whooping cough QLD is saddly endangering new born babies if mum did not get the vaccine during pregnancy (Vaccine is free for some and about $50 for me types of people)

This is sad

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Why is Samoa hit so hard?

Vaccination rates - meaning the number of young children covered - recently dropped to a low of only 31% in Samoa, compared to 99% in nearby Nauru, Niue, and Cook Islands.
In part, that low rate has been attributed to the deaths of two children.
In July 2018, two infants died in Samoa after receiving vaccinations against measles, mumps and rubella, raising local fears over the vaccine itself.
But the deaths were later established to have been due to the nurses mixing the vaccine with an expired muscle relaxant, instead of water.
The two nurses pleaded guilty to manslaughter and were sentenced to five years in prison. "

Hi All,

I haven’t posted in here before but I can add some personal experiences.

1 - I don’t have kids, so I am not sure what I would do if I did.

2 - My mother didn’t get me vaccinated in 1971.

3 - I worked in Malaysia in 1994, returning with Whooping cough and Eczema.

4 - At the age of 14 I had a rusty needle in my foot for a 12 months. When it was eventually cut out (obviously I didn’t know that it was in there, apart from the pain) - the doctor was amazed that I had never had a tetanus injection.

Do I believe in vaccinations?

Not sure to be honest... Lol

Cheers,
GG

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

This is sad

"
Why is Samoa hit so hard?

Vaccination rates - meaning the number of young children covered - recently dropped to a low of only 31% in Samoa, compared to 99% in nearby Nauru, Niue, and Cook Islands.
In part, that low rate has been attributed to the deaths of two children.
In July 2018, two infants died in Samoa after receiving vaccinations against measles, mumps and rubella, raising local fears over the vaccine itself.
But the deaths were later established to have been due to the nurses mixing the vaccine with an expired muscle relaxant, instead of water.
The two nurses pleaded guilty to manslaughter and were sentenced to five years in prison. "

The vaccination rate drop had mostly happened before the two vaccine related deaths - the rate was 90% in 2013, but had dropped to 31% by 2018 when the deaths occurred. The deaths were the result of the vaccine being accidentally mixed with a muscle relaxant, and as you say, two nurses were convicted over it.

It seems that the drop in vaccinations is almost entirely due to the anti-vax movement imported from the USA, with a series of visits by prominent campaigners from the US, New Zealand and Australia.

Another reason for the severity of the outbreak is that it seems that Polynesians are more affected by measles than western Europeans - not more likely to get it, but more likely to die from it.

I refuse to use the term anti----- unscientific, snake oil sales or similar is more accurate. Death wish on them selves is ok. Killing children is not.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Another reason for the severity of the outbreak is that it seems that Polynesians are more affected by measles than western Europeans - not more likely to get it, but more likely to die from it.

Polynesians also have a genetic propensity for severe crippling gout. Known as Chronic Tophaceous Gout. Not helped by their traditional seafood heavy diet. They eat virtually anything that comes out of the sea. So do the Japanese but they don't seem to suffer crippling gout.