to be bl**dy furious that my DD has measles because other parents won't vaccinate?

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poor DD is only 11 mo and has horrid measles all over her, full of cold, streaming eyes, diarrhea, very unhappy and sleepy and limp. I am so so for her, but more I am absolutely bloody with idiot parents who won't have the MMR!

The doctor actually told me this morning that the reason it is so prevalent in our area is because of stupid people refusing to vaccinate their children and compromising the immunity of the whole group. So now my LO, who is only 2 months off having the vaccination herself, is really really sick because of other people's stupidity. It's making my blood boil! Do people not realise how dangerous it can be in little babies? And does anyone still seriously believe the so called "research" which claimed a link between MMR and autism? It has been so completely discredited in recent years you would think people would have got over it by now and started vaccinating again

Arrgh!!

Mummydoc I have a family medical book at home written by a peadiatrician in the 1980's. In it he describes measles as a 'usually mild,self limiting disease'. So I think telling a patient they were going to be brain damaged is more than unethical. If you terrorised my child like that I would be complaining that you were not for to practice and I think that you would find statistics (ore theinglated post mmr ones would back me up

novice - If you are not into "emotive" discussions, what on earth were you doing calling people "idiot parents"?

This is not an emotive subject for me. Nobody in my family has been vaccine-damaged. I am, as you say, "wholly objective".

Yet you still don't make sense.

"my posts have been aimed at debunking some of the truly bad science on this subject"

Really? Which "bad science" did you debunk, exactly? I'm truly curious. I read the whole thread and don't remember any such contribution on your part.