The Truth Comes Out- United States Vaccination Rates High
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National Vaccine Information Center's BL Fisher Note:
It all began this summer when parents in Texas, after seven years of
educating the Texas legislature, got a conscientious belief exemption to
vaccination signed into law by the Governor. Angry that parents in Texas
would now have informed consent to vaccination and unable to successfully
pressure the Governor to repeal the law, state and federal health officials
began whipping up fear and hysteria in the media and the public with reports
of whooping cough "outbreaks" in certain states. They have been blaming the
whooping cough "outbreaks" on parents taking exemptions to vaccination and
not vaccinating their children.
Now the real truth emerges. As we knew it would.
Vaccination rates are at an all time high for children entering
kindergarten. The USA has vaccination rates that are approaching 100 percent
for some vaccines like DTAP, which is supposed to protect against whooping
cough. It is poor vaccine efficacy, not poor vaccine uptake that generates
whooping cough in highly vaccinated populations such as the US. In most
whooping cough "outbreaks" the majority of the cases occur in the
vaccinated. A 95 percent vaccination rate in any population is more than
enough for herd immunity to be in force. The unvaccinated catch it from
someone - most likely someone who has been vaccinated considering the fact
there is a 95 percent plus uptake in American children.
The more government health officials and doctors fronting for drug companies
speak out of both sides of their mouth and disseminate false and misleading
information about diseases and vaccines, the more the people know they can't
believe anything they say.
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School rules key
Vaccination Coverage High In 2002-2003
Heidi Splete, Senior Writer
Requiring vaccination to attend school has contributed to better vaccination coverage, reported K. Shaw and colleagues at the National Immunization Program of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The government-mandated national health objective is to maintain vaccination levels of at least 95% of children in kindergarten and first grade through the year 2010 (MMWR 52[33]:791-93, 2003).
The data for the 2002-2003 school year showed that the actual coverage levels were 95% or higher for all vaccines except hepatitis B in 29 states (56.9%) and were 90% or better in a total of 45 states (88.2%). The District of Columbia was considered a state for the purposes of this analysis.
For kindergarteners and/or first graders, the mean vaccination coverage level in 49 states was 96.2% for at least three doses of poliovirus vaccine, 95.7% for at least one dose of measles-containing vaccine, and 96.1% for at least one dose of rubella-containing vaccine. The mean coverage level was 96.1% in 47 states for at least one dose of mumps-containing vaccine.
In 39 states, the mean vaccination coverage level was 95.5% for at least four doses of DTP/DTaP/DT vaccine. The mean coverage level was 96.0% for three doses of hepatitis B (HepB) vaccine in 41 states.
The CDC made vaccination reporting easier for schools with an online system of automatic data management and calculation. These efforts have paid off�vaccination reporting increased from 36 states (70.6%) reporting for the 2000-2001 school year to 49 states (96.1%) reporting for the 2002-2003 school year. The data are limited because state and local laws vary in their vaccination requirements for school attendance and because not all states included home-schooled children and children in private schools in their surveys.
For more information, contact the National Immunization Program's Immunization Information Hotline at 800-232-2522 or query them by e-mail at nipinfo.cdc.gov.
Copyright � 2003 by International Medical News Group
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