City Fights Mumps Outbreak With POD Vaccination Teams - NYTimes.com

February 28, 2010

What have I shared all along? Antibodies after vaccines do NOT mean

immunity

But if 2 vaccines don't work, they will add a third. More $$ that

way.

These children are fortunate - they are now getting true immunity

Sheri

The standard prescription is two doses of the M.M.R.

(

measles, mumps,

rubella) vaccine in childhood. That’s what most of the patients in

Brooklyn had gotten, and it didn’t help them. Which has led medical

professionals to reconsider some long-held notions about mumps in

particular and communicable diseases in general.

“People that have measurable

antibodies to mumps, which I was always taught meant you were immune,

we found are getting the disease,” said Dr. Chapnick, director of

infectious diseases at Maimonides Medical Center. “And two vaccines,

which we always thought had a very high effectiveness at preventing this,

turns out to have a 75 to 80 percent effectiveness.”

The Department of Health still recommends two shots, but many doctors in

the area including Dr. Eli Rosen, a pediatrician who said he had

treated 200 to 300 mumps cases so far now favor three

vaccinations, as do other private doctors in the area. “It appears

that two vaccines are not effective in the vast majority of cases,” Dr.

Rosen said. “Is this going to be a pattern we’ll see as we go out in

vaccine years?” And, he added, would other vaccines also lose their

effectiveness over time?

Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian

Homeopath

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