My son’s pediatrician asked us whether we wanted US or EURO style immunizations for our son, then she said when we asked why the difference if I was from the US and planned to go back we should go with the US ones because some schools in the US refuse euro style ones.:dubious:
We ended up going with the euro style because it was much less injections and cheaper, all the immunizations where combined in a single ampule instead of around 6! different ampules and injections.
But why on earth would it matter whether the immunizations were given separate or all in one to a school? I find it odd that every child immunized in EU is refused by US schools.
I wonder if that was anything to do with the combined MMR (Measles, Mumps and Rubella) vaccine controversy?
It was suggest that there was a link between this and childhood autism. It raged for a few years with high profile medical researchers debating each others statistics and politicians and vocal parents pointing fingers at each other until it was finally settled. For a time, these multiple inoculations were out of fashion and individual were preferred…at the risk of them not being completed. I guess there are still schools that are worried about being sued.
This article states that the most common difference is that many countries don’t include the chicken pox vaccine. Could it be that some states require that vaccine to consider a child fully immunized?
The UK doesn’t do chicken pox vaccinations, which seems to be the main difference for young children, and I’ve seen no signs that they’re likely to start. They do, however, provide the HPV vaccine for young girls (IIRC at age 14), and may expand coverage to others at some point.
Also: Andrew Wakefield should burn in hell for what he’s wrought. But that’s a different thread topic.
It says the US equivalent of the MMR vaccine is called MMRV, which includes Chickenpox and suggests it is excluded in the UK because Chickenpox exposure is thought to protect against Shingles in adults. I guess that is another controversy.
Wikipedia lists the vaccination schedules of various countries. Seems to be a preference in Europe for combined vaccinations.
The preference for the MMR here in the UK is based on avoiding the repeated visits to get the separate vaccinations. The MMR is free on the NHS but if you want them separately you have to pay.
And yes Wakefield deserves an unpleasant and premature end. I have not seen any estimates of the number of children who died or suffered permanent disability due to his faked research but I am sure that there are many.
There may also be a special place in hell for the editor of the Lancet, who’s urbane defense (long before the official apology) of the decision to publish was that The Lancet was in competition for readers.
One difference between US and Canadian vaccine scheduled is that infants in the US get Hep B vaccinations but not in Canada, apparently because of a greater prevalence of Hep B in the US.
Just to clarify: In the United States, separate vaccines for mumps, measles, and rubella are no longer available. You need to get all three at once or none at all.
I would like to know where in Europe/the E.U. all childhood vaccines are given in a single dose/injection. That certainly is not the case in the U.K.:
It would also be interesting to know which American schools supposedly reject children vaccinated according to European schedules, and how difficult a catchup plan for any missed vaccines might be.
You are misunderstanding. The controversy/difference is solely for the MMR - Measles, Mumps and Rubella vaccination. This is given as a single dose in the UK and, apparently, in the US.
Since grude has not qualified this statement as just referring to the MMR (which would make doubtful contextual sense anyway) I’m not sure where you are getting the “misunderstanding” from.