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1. Internet dating advice, safe dating advice

   March 31st, 2008 at 12:55 am

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2. Frankie Milley

   March 31st, 2008 at 7:28 am

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   All teens should talk to their parents and health care providers about their immunizations. Teens are at a very high risk for meningococcal meningitis.
   Too many infants, teens, kids and young adults are left debilitated or die from this vaccine preventable disease.
   I am the mother of an only child, Ryan, who died from meningitis and the founder and executive director of a national organization Meningitis Angels,
   http://www.meningitis-angels.org.

   What is meningitis?
   Meningitis is a dangerous and sometimes fatal inflammation of the brain and/or spinal cord that can leave survivors with serious life-long physical problems such as, organ failure, blindness, deafness, loss of limbs, severe seizures, brain damage and other disabilities.
   You should also understand meningococcemia and sepsis.

   Signs and Symptoms
   Do you know the early signs of meningitis and blood poisoning which could improve detection of the disease and save lives?
   Unrelenting fever, leg pain, cold hands and feet and abnormal skin color can develop within (12 hours) after infection long before the more classic signs of the illness such as a rash, headache, stiff neck, sensitivity to light and impaired consciousness, debilitation or death. Anyone can get meningitis especially infants, children and teens.

   What parents and students should know:
   According to ACIP/CDC children ages (11) years through college freshmen should be vaccinated against meningococcal meningitis. The current vaccines are approved for ages (2) years and older. However be informed, there are (5) sero-groups of the disease, all sero-groups are not covered. However the most common in the United States among adolescents and college students is sero-group C and Y, which are.

   Infants and toddlers should be vaccinated against pneumococcal meningitis.
   Those children in daycare and those of American Indian and African American heritage are at a higher risk for pneumococcal meningitis.

   There is no vaccine to prevent viral meningitis.

   Frankie Milley, Meningitis Angels,Founder/National Director.
   Ryan’s Mom

3. Dr. Mick

   March 31st, 2008 at 4:39 pm

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   Came across your blog and wanted to inform you of some pertinent information with regard to vaccination. With all do respect to Ryan’s mother, using the phrase vaccine preventable, is not always the case. The premise of vaccination is built on the foundation that antibodies are produced as a result of oral and inter-muscular injection of an antigen (dead or weakened piece of the disease), and as long as enough people are vaccinated (80%) then there can be no epidemics. Both of these statements have been refuted by peer reviewed science. I will post a couple of studies from these reviews at the end of my statement. No parent wants their child to go unprotected from potentially fatal diseases , and I feel terrible for Mrs. Milley’s loss. None the less, the foundation I spoke of with respect to vaccination is disintegrating at an alarming rate. The two points I will bring up have to do with whether the antigen-antibody connection actually protects us from disease and the fact that infections have occurred with the same disease that people have been vaccinated against. Vaccine, which is a respected scientific journal stated that there is no correlation between the presence of antibodies and protection from disease. Vaccine. 2001 Oct 15;20 Suppl 1:S38-41. PMID: 11587808. Further more, the public is lead to believe that if they get vaccinated they are protected from getting said disease. There are many examples of how this is absolutely false. For example, Vaccinated Individuals…can become ill with Measles… It is difficult to know how well vaccine alone induces immunity… a booster vaccine had little effect on this student population’s measles antibody status. Matson DO, Byington C, Canfield M. et al. Investigation of Measles outbreak in a fully vaccinated school population including serum studies before and after re-vaccination. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 1993;12(4):292-299.
   Lastly, many epidemiologic studies have shown that all of the diseases we vaccinate against were on the decline well before vaccination was available. From 1900 to 1935, before the Pertussis vaccine was introduced, the death rate from pertussis in the U.S. and England had already declined on its own by 79% and 82% respectively. Source: International Mortality Statistics (1981) by Michael Anderson. Also available on HealthSentinel.com. I am a family physician in practice for about a decade. I could no longer ignore the repeated associated injury from vaccines in my patients. I got informed and made the best decision for me and my family and practice. I hope you do your homework on this controversial subject.
   Best wishes,
   Dr. Mick

4. Puneet

   April 7th, 2008 at 7:04 am

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   Well said abt vaccinations given to children ….

   Its a must to give those vaccines to a child and at right time