{"id":17574,"date":"2013-08-25T14:16:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T19:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=17574"},"modified":"2013-08-25T14:16:54","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T19:16:54","slug":"vaccination-anti-vax-measles-outbreak-and-a-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/25\/vaccination-anti-vax-measles-outbreak-and-a-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaccination, Anti-Vax, Measles Outbreak and a Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.addictinginfo.org\/2013\/08\/24\/faith-healer-convinces-followers-to-never-vaccinate-now-church-the-center-of-measles-outbreak\/\">Faith Healer [who] Convinces Followers To Never Vaccinate, [and] Now Church [is] The Center Of Measles Outbreak<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Eagle Mountain International Church in Newark, Texas, run by Kenneth Copeland Ministries, has long been a strong anti-vaccination stronghold. Now, it is the epicenter of a major outbreak of Measles in the United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpr.org\/programs\/airtalk\/2013\/08\/21\/33359\/should-anti-vaccination-parents-be-held-liable-if\/\">here is a poll <\/a>that asks: Should anti-vaccine parents be held liable if their child spreads an illness?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Say an unvaccinated child has the measles and passes the disease onto a baby who\u2019s too young to be vaccinated. If that baby gets ill (or worse), should its parents be able to sue the infected child\u2019s parents for negligence?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Last time I checked, &#8220;No&#8221; was winning, with about 7K votes in.<\/p>\n<p>It is reasonable to ask &#8220;The vaccination does make the baby cry, so why do it?&#8221;  <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/09\/27\/the-vaccination-does-make-the-1\/\">Here&#8217;s the answer. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, there is a Faith Healer [who] Convinces Followers To Never Vaccinate, [and] Now Church [is] The Center Of Measles Outbreak The Eagle Mountain International Church in Newark, Texas, run by Kenneth Copeland Ministries, has long been a strong anti-vaccination stronghold. Now, it is the epicenter of a major outbreak of Measles in the United &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/25\/vaccination-anti-vax-measles-outbreak-and-a-poll\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vaccination, Anti-Vax, Measles Outbreak and a Poll<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[914,1882,1197,3831],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-4zs","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}