UPDATE: There are no confirmed cases of mumps in Humboldt County.
While saying he could not speak about any specific cases, public health nurse Eric Gordon, with the Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services, says that locally, from 2003 through the present, the county has had only one confirmed case of mumps reported — and that was in 2005.
Original post:
A Trinity Valley Elementary School student — who had been immunized — is battling the mumps. That’s rare, reports the Two Rivers Tribune , which has the story in this week’s edition:
This is the first reported case of the Mumps in the United States since 2009 where the person who contracted the virus was vaccinated and hadn’t been outside of the U.S.
This article appears in Taking Charge in Loleta.
This is a success story for vaccines. It’s a misnomer that vaccination is 100% effective, but the rate of effectiveness is so high that we’ve almost eradicated mumps in the US.
Of course, the more people forgo vaccinations due to superstition, the more people there are out there who can easily catch and spread disease — spread it even to vaccinated people, and babies too young for vaccination.
Wait, the kid was immunized, I have been told that if you immunize you dont get the items your immunized from. All the extra mercury or other substrates are not worth thinking about- just get immunized…. um, ya…
Loaded, are you loaded? First, no medical professional told you that immunization is 100% effective. You’ve read one too many conspiracy websites.
Second, you haven’t a clue about what immunizations still have mercury (very few do). They never posed a problem to begin with. Their removal from vaccines was not an evidence-based decision, but one based purely on PR in the wake of a famous (and now thoroughly discredited) study. You can’t point to any scientific research that suggests the mercury in vaccines caused anything other than superstitious people getting in a tizzy.
And who confirmed this so-called case of mumps? The margin of diagnostic error far exceeds the probability that this child has mumps.
Well said, Yep!
um, yeah, well said yep, except for being an ideologue- one step closer to be a basic facist with your own set of ‘facts’ and opinions you push as doctrine. I know, I get it Joe.. your research and doctors know more than mine…
“Of course, the more people forgo vaccinations due to superstition, the more people there are out there who can easily catch and spread disease — spread it even to vaccinated people”
That makes perfect sense. Mumps, measles, chicken pox and pertussis are all very deadly diseases! Very high mortality rates.