Amanda Peet thinks parents who don't vaccinate are 'parasites'!

Look before creating a topic there are already two others with this stupid arguement. Guess what she is allowed to raise her child how she sees fit just like you are.

Vaccines are perfectly safe. Children every year are dying because of the decision not to vaccinate, which is based on fear and misinformation. Please, for the sake of your child, read the medical literature, or speak to a physician about it. Vaccines save lives!

I'm sorry about your child, I really am but haven't you thought that the age at which autism starts to show symptoms is roughly the same time when children are vaccinated? Amanda Peet strongly feels that vaccination is right (as do I) and she is trying to get other parents to vaccinate to protect their children. It is exactly the same thing you are doing arguing against it. I know one thing about her - I know her child won't get any of the diseases she is vaccinated against wheras your child can catch all of them.

I don't know that Amanda realizes that at least Jenny McCarthy is not saying to refrain from vacccinating one's children altogether but rather space the vaccinations out over a longer period of time.

Well Jenny McCarthy isn't a great source of wisdom on medical issues... I wouldn't take advice about my child from some ex Playboy model

"I know one thing about her - I know her child won't get any of the diseases she is vaccinated against wheras your child can catch all of them."

Actually samuel-yui there isn't much data to support that argument. The CDC just released an alert for measles and stated in 2011 there are 133 cases already. Of the individuals where vaccination status is known 78% were not vaccinated, the other 21% had between 1~3 doses of MMR already.

Please don't spread misinformation.

In 2010 the NY outbreak of mumps was amongst teens who had all been vaccinated as children.

While your comment is somewhat true, it is NOT entirely true.

Many (most/all?) public schools require vaccinations for students to be admitted. If they cannot provide documentation of being vaccinated, the students ARE sent home. (School district regulations.)

In the case of a celebrity, with the ability to send their children to private school, some possibly not requiring vaccinations, (example: religious based, like Christian Science), THEY can raise their children as they see fit. For the less financially fortunate majority of people, that is NOT the case.

BTW, that ignores the possibility of obtaining fake vaccination documentation...

Info late to the party with some more current news...

A Dallas/Ft. Worth (TX, USA) metroplex suburb city had a measles outbreak in their high school, (about 100 of over a thousand students, compared to a typical ZERO infections), a few years ago, and many of the infected had a measles vaccine. The fact in the investigation came out that the vaccine dosage has been periodicly reduced, and HAS apparently crossed the threshold to only being partially effective. Those infected without any vaccine had more severe cases however, and outnumbered the vaccinated students.

It is not unreasonable to deduce the unvaccinated students spread the disease, endangering other children.
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According to televised (paid) advertising/solicitations, one in three people that have been infected with measles will be afflicted with shingles, caused by the measles virus, so there is long-term damage involved as well. ---Correction, Chicken Pox is the disease *precursor* to shingles, not measles. However, that connection/link of the two maladies was not known some years ago, and there could be an unpublished/undiscovered link of measles to something else.

And, my original statement just before this edit has a very recent example in the California Bay Area. You will need to cut this URL and paste it into your browser:
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/california-thousands-exposed-measles-n29991

FYI, the Dallas/Ft. Worth area has a major international airport, (DFW), and as in the California incident, measles could have been brought into the area through that airport with international traveler(s), or the porous US borders.

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As a result of the infection of vaccinated individuals, the CDC recommended people vaccinated within a specified time period, (the *most* reduced vaccine years, which included all the infected vaccinated students), should seek another measles vaccination, (or booster?) if they had not already contracted measles.


In regard to the 2013/2014 influenza (flu) vaccine, one family of five (2 parents, 3 younger children) in Dallas were all NOT vaccinated, and the entire family caught the flu, with two of the children requiring hospitalization. There are currently at least 44 Flu deaths in Dallas County, (TX), to date, including children. Probably due to the Federal H.I.P.A. laws (health info privacy portion), there has been no update on the story of those two hospitalized children.

For what it is worth,
I was very surprised to learn (at the time of the High School measles outbreak), that the current practice is to administer multiple vaccines, (and boosters), at the same time.
(BTW, the USA military administers multiple vaccines to ADULT servicemen and servicewomen, and they CANNOT refuse the vaccines).
===>> That was not the original timing of vaccines when I was a child (oldest sibling). Articles giving a rationale for that new practice claim it raises the overall vaccination totals because it required fewer trips to the doctors, (and fewer insurance co-pays, coincidentally?).