8 NJ College Students Contract Mumps Despite Having Vaccine That "Doesn't Provide Full Protection"

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Vaccines don’t provide full protection? Ya don’t say.

A college campus in northern New Jersey is on alert after eight students were diagnosed with the highly contagious mumps disease.

The students at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken were 18 to 21 years old and fully vaccinated against mumps, according to the school. Some of them lived in the same fraternity house and some were members of the lacrosse team, according to other students on campus.

They were sent home to be isolated from other students during the infectious phase of the illness.

James Shannon, a junior who said he was an acquaintance of the sick students, said they seemed to be OK.

“From what we heard from the other guys in the house, on the team, they said they’re doing fine,” said Shannon.

The mumps vaccine, which all students are required to have before attending Stevens Tech, doesn’t provide full protection, according to doctors. A similar outbreak was reported at Fordham University earlier this year. 

“Duh, cuz vaccines contain the disease”

From MyFoxNY:

The New Jersey Department of Health is investigating eight confirmed cases of mumps found in students at Stevens Institute of Technology.

The college in Hoboken says the students range in age from 18 to 21. All were fully vaccinated with two documented doses of mumps-containing vaccine.

The school says it has told faculty and staff members who are unsure of their immunization status to check with their health providers.

Then there was that time Piers Morgan got sick after getting a flu shot on TV.

Infowars.com
January 24, 2013

CNN host Piers Morgan is likely wanting another chat with daytime talk-show host Dr. Oz. for an explanation on why he got sick just days after having a flu vaccination administered on live television.

According to his recent interview with country music star and actor Dwight Yoakam, the host is admittedly feeling under-the-weather and has a sore throat.

In his interview with Yoakam, Morgan asks, “You’re a singer; you must have had sore throats over the years. As you can tell, things are deteriorating. Is there any advice you can give me?”

Yoakam tells him, “Don’t ever take a flu shot again,” referring to Morgan’s recent public stunt in which he and Dr. Oz attempted to dispel the “myth” surrounding flu vaccines that one can acquire the flu post-vaccination; however, Morgan’s “deteriorating” condition does anything but support the TV doctor’s claims.

Morgan continues, “We’re both doing the math, so I mean, we both saw him put that thing in my arm and within 10 days I’m struck down.”

Yoakam’s response was that he was skeptical about the efficacy of flu vaccines and that he himself had never been vaccinated: “…I’m not a medical adviser…I don’t believe in them. I’m just suspicious by nature. I saw you get it and here we are.”

A few days ago, the folks at CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight thought it’d make for an entertaining segment to have Dr. Oz shoot Morgan up with the flu vaccine on live TV.

In the segment, Morgan rolled up his sleeve for his “first ever flu shot” as he nervously asked Dr. Oz about the “myths” surrounding the flu vaccine:

“So the myth about these, and I’m told it’s a myth, is that you can actually get flu or flu-like symptoms simply by having the shot. Is that true?”

As if reading straight from the Center for Disease Control’s own seasonal flu vaccine fact guide, Oz brazenly replies, “You cannot get the flu from the flu shot because the material is actually dead flu virus. So it cannot cause a problem for you. It’s based on whatever virus was present in Southeast Asia a few days ago.”

“So that is a myth?” Morgan again asks.

“That’s a myth,” Oz reassures.

After he injects Morgan with the dead flu strain, Oz. turns to the crowd and takes a bow as if he’s just performed some tremendous feat.

Morgan’s very public onset of illness following his inoculation doesn’t do much to help the public image of the vaccine industry, an industry who many have argued may be doing more harm than good. Past news items don’t seem too reassuring either.

For instance, a few days ago, Reuters gave an account from one of nearly 800 children in Europe that had developed narcolepsy as a result of being immunized with the Pandemrix H1N1 swine flu vaccine produced by the British drugmaker, GlaxoSmithKline in 2009.

Emmanuel Mignot, a specialist in the sleep disorder at Stanford University in the U.S., stated that there was no doubt in his mind “that Pandemrix increased the occurrence of narcolepsy onset in children in some countries – and probably in most countries.”

In October 2012, according to the Wall Street Journal, “Switzerland’s health regulator imposed an immediate ban on Novartis AG’s flu vaccines… after possibly contaminated flu shots were found in batches in Italy…”

This past September, a study led by Vancouver’s Dr. Danuta Skowronski, an influenza expert at the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, found that people who received a flu shot before the outbreak of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic were more likely to get infected with the swine flu virus than those who didn’t take it.

Also, in July 2010, a report from Australia’s The Age found that influenza vaccines sent 100 infants into life-threatening convulsions, after which Australian health authorities were forced to reiterate a ban “on the use of Fluvax for children under five as a result of the convulsions which occurred at nine times the expected rate.”

The CDC says side effects like seizures in children are only “moderate” side effects of injecting the Influenza vaccine, while listing adverse reactions like fevers, headaches, and hoarseness as “mild.”

The CDC list goes on to say, “Life-threatening allergic reactions from vaccines are very rare. If they do occur, it is usually within a few minutes to a few hours after the shot.”