Infant & Child Vaccinations - The Vaccine Schedule & The Controversy

by Laura Thieme

More on the San Diego measles outbreak earlier in 2008.  So, the children that contracted measles from the one 7-year old child who returned from Switzerland (hello, what parent let him/her on the plane - or did they not know before boarding?) to La Jolla, CA - were between 10 months old and 9 years old.  Those that contracted the measles disease had either not been vaccinated yet, because they were too young, or because the parents had objected to the vaccination.

 In Dr. Sear’s alternative vaccine schedule, they suggest splitting up the vaccine, and delaying it - even though there is a shortage of vaccines that are separate.  Now, since we travel all around the world, and if we don’t, we might travel with someone who does - our exposure risk is much greater now than in years past.  It’s much easier to transmit a disease very quickly with travelling parents, much like myself.  In fact, I figured I’d travel to CA to do some Google work in February.  But now, I wonder if I should.  Should I risk a flight to California, when Melina is not yet vaccinated, when some other kid who has measles jumps on a plane, with or without awareness and/or protection? 

More to come on this topic.