And because she's eleven

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">This Pedi a tell mi from last year when likkelgen was 10, that dem offer private exams without the parents in the room</div></div>

well..some kids have parents that trow slippas first and ask questions later...or doan ask questions at all (ie: talk to the kids when them calm and rational). I can kinda understand how a policy like that came about.

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<span style="font-weight: bold">Epidemic of vaccine fear triggers return of old-school diseases</span>
By Petula Dvorak, Tuesday, October 18, 10:23 AM

Tents, signs, protests and chants are all the rage these days for showing our growing distrust of government and big corporations. Want to know another way that distrust is manifesting in America? Through whooping cough, measles and diphtheria. Yup. Stats from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have gone totally retro, with old-school diseases coming back stronger than pencil skirts.

Our nation’s parents have a growing distrust of vaccinations, one of medicine’s greatest advances. And we’re not just talking about 2 or 3 percent anymore. The fringe who didn’t believe in medicine for religious and other reasons has exploded into a 10 percent, largely yuppie epidemic. A report published this month in the medical journal Pediatrics says that one in 10 parents are avoiding or delaying vaccines in their children because of safety concerns. So now places such as San Diego and Minneapolis are the backdrops for mini-epidemics of deadly diseases not seen in generations.

GOP presidential hopeful Rep. Michele Bachmann (Minn.) gave wind to more anti-vaccine hysteria last month when she reported one woman’s alleged horror story with the HPV vaccine, which is designed to protect girls from cervical cancer. “I will tell you that I had a mother last night come up to me here in Tampa, Fla., after the debate and tell me that her little daughter took that vaccine, that injection, and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter,” Bachmann said.

Now that’s just ridiculous.

The anti-vaccine movement began gaining momentum about a decade ago, when folks started to allege a link between immunization and autism, fueled by studies from a British doctor, Andrew Wakefield. It was seized on by parents desperate to find an explanation for the sharp rise in diagnoses of autism in children, including their own.

The embrace of everything eco- and bio- and whole and organic also drove the rejection of stuff manufactured in a lab that is injected into your babies. And then the cause was famously taken up by actress Jenny McCarthy, who loudly went on Oprah’s show and concluded that “the University of Google” confirmed that her son’s autism was caused by a vaccine. “That woman. With the swinging blond hair and spray tan. People listened to her. They still listen to her,” lamented Alexandra Stewart, who teaches health policy at George Washington University. Numerous medical studies have debunked the connection between vaccines and autism, but parental resistance keeps rising anyway. “You have someone like [McCarthy] out there, and then you have CDC scientists,” a frustrated Stewart said.

Earlier this year, Wakefield’s study was at last retracted by the British medical journal Lancet because some of the data turned out to be bogus. Still, the number of parents who won’t trust shots keeps rising, primarily, Stewart said, among “white, educated populations of people with computers.”

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