In a sign that the message is starting to get through about the danger of measles, seven out of ten parents believe parents who do not vaccinate their children with MMR are being irresponsible, according to a new ComRes/ITV poll.
In a sign that the message is starting to get through about the dangers associated with measles, seven out of ten parents believe parents who do not vaccinate their children with MMR are being irresponsible, according to a new ComRes/ITV poll.
Of those questioned, just 16 per cent disagreed and 13 per cent were not sure.
Eight in ten (83 per cent) also considered the MMR triple vaccination to be a safe way to protect children against Measles, Mumps and Rubella. A small minority (5 per cent) continued to view the MMR vaccine as unsafe. This is around 2.4 million British adults.
A large majority (85 per cent) of the British public said they supported the campaign to give a million teenagers the MMR vaccine while only 5 per cent disagree and 9 per cent do not know.
Public opinion is divided, however, over whether school children not vaccinated with MMR should be refused admission to state schools to protect other children. 37 per cent agree children not vaccinated with MMR should be refused admission to state schools while 43 per cent disagree and 20 per cent don’t know.
Left Foot Forward has previously looked at the media’s shameful role in the MMR scandal here, here and here.
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13 Responses to “Parents who don’t vaccinate their children with MMR ‘irresponsible’, say 7 in 10 parents”
RedKev
MMR safe ? Well a recent court ruling clearly stated otherwise.
Or did they come to their judgment based on bad science?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2160054/MMR-A-mothers-victory-The-vast-majority-doctors-say-link-triple-jab-autism-Italian-court-case-reignite-controversial-debate.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/post2468343_b_2468343.html
Alec
A court ruling??? Non-medically qualified legal judges??? Not even in this country???
You aint helping yourself.
Why won’t you respond to the stuff about Wakefield being a complete and utter fraud and charlatan?
~alec
Alec
From the DM article:
Wrong.
According to the DM piece, the kid just had had a bad bout of
gastroenteritis, and went on to disregard this as Barboni would appear
to have done (assuming it wasn’t present in the strategically-placed
ellipses) and you have done.
Recent gastroenteritis presents a risk for any paediatric vaccination (and infants who miss a vaccination for this or other reason would received protection via herd immunity should uptake amongst healthy infants be sufficient). Insofar as the Italian judgement has medical value, it’s more likely that compensation is based on the examining physician’s potentially not taking that into account.
Have I mentioned that Wakefield falsified data and misrepresented himself?
~alec
RedKev
I see no need to respond to comments made by Dr Wakefield because I didn’t quote his research in the first place – Please check my posts to confirm this .
However, if people want to judge what he and others have to say – here’s a link http://healthimpactnews.com/2012/italian-court-rules-mmr-vaccine-caused-autism-why-is-this-story-blacked-out-of-the-us-media/
Alec
That’s the same as the DM article! And you’ve blanked my response… you are not the brightest bulb in the pack, are you?
You most definitely are obligated to respond to the comments about Wakefield (including the fact he no longer is recognized as a doctor) because your claims, whether you care to admit to it or not, arise entirely from his fraudulent papers.
You would not be here were it not for him. You’d be peddling just another unknown vial of snake-oil were it not for him. You know, one of those alternative (and more expensive|) vaccination regiemes which this lying liar was accepting bungs for… so much for MMR being pushing by big bucks pharmaceuticals.
Furthermore, you most definitely are obligated to address direct responses your claims (to which Wakefield is connected only tangentially, no matter how much of a case you try to make out of a non-point) on accounts of basic argument and intellectual honesty.
I have no intention of reading another link which you beg me to read. I have read everything else you’d posted and offered responses. You’ve ignored it, and sallied onto another claim. My guess is this is ‘cos you know you have no case, and are trying to tie your opponent up in endless verification.
This is a common tactic of disassemblers.
Oh, okay, give us a single piece of medical research – not op-eds which don’t even merit the description “literature review” – which demonstrate a link between MMR and autism. If you want to extricate yourself from a hitching your wagon to that of a proven lying liar, there’ll be oodles of it.
~alec