Measles caused by homeschoolers???

This is just all kinds of pissing me off...enough so that i'm blogging in the middle of the day.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26333787/

The article actually says that many cases were caused by homeschoolers, although appr 40% of the cases were kids under the age of one, obviously NOT homeschoolers and probably not even cases of refused vaccinations since MMR starts at 15 months. Grrrr. Actually 25 kids were homeschoolers. How is that many cases? Maybe some...if I had 131 cookies, and ate 25, that would be many, but if there were millions of homeschoolers and hundreds of kids with measles, that would qualify as 'some' homeschoolers.

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None of the 131 patients died, but 15 were hospitalized. (from me, probably because they were treated with tylenol, which can cause complications in viruses that clear through the liver)

Childhood vaccination rates for measles continue to exceed 92 percent, but outbreak pockets seem to be forming, health officials said. (obviously then, vaccine schedules aren't working. According to recent studies, efficacy is around 80%)

Of this year's total, 122 were unvaccinated or had unknown vaccination status. Some were unvaccinated because the children were under age 1, making them too young to get their first measles shot.

In 63 of those cases — almost all of them 19 or younger — the patient or their parents refused vaccination, the CDC reported.
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And at the end
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Since 2001, the preservative has been removed from shots recommended for young children.
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Technically not true. Your vaccines are made with all the same thimerosal that it had before, but it is 'washed' from the vaccines. Not 100% effective...from what I remember from organic chemistry.