Riddle of risky measles jab campaign short keeping life.
None of the school nurses / "there have met who are involved in the measles vaccinations have anaphylactic packs, most have adrenaline available but is has to be found, measured and drawn up before it can be injected.
• Trigger reactions. the programme has started there has been a significant incidence of unusual reactions being triggered' by the vaccine, for example children who have no history of asthma hare having asthma attacks following the injection.
• Risk to foetus.It is known that the measles vaccine can affect a foetus and it is advised that the vaccine is not given to pregnant women.
Yet the school nurses are not being encouraged to ask the female teenage pupils if there is any possibility they could be pregnant.
If they do ask it will not normally be possible to do it in circumstances where the there is either the privacy or time to gain the confidence of the young woman and to ask sensitively.
The main issue for me is why hasn't any one been told any of this?
Why are parents being guilttripped into signing forms to agree to our children having a vaccination without being given the facts?
And why are they vaccinating the whole population between 5 and 16, when the risk of a second injection could be greater than the risk of a measles epidemic and it is costing them a fortune?
Does anyone out there know?
Edmonds SOCIALIST OUTLOOK No.73-74, December 1994, Page 3 Livingstone