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When she was 15 months old, Julieanna Metcalf of Montrose, Minn., almost died during an outbreak of bacterial meningitis. Here’s what her ordeal can tell us about the hidden dangers of the anti-vaccine movement.
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When Brendalee Flint got a call at work on Monday, Jan. 21, 2008, telling her that her 15-month-old daughter, Julieanna, was running a fever, she took the news in stride. But just to be safe, the mom of four later called her pediatrician, who assured her there was probably nothing to worry about. “That night, I gave her some medicine and put her to bed,” she says.
Truth and ConsequencesWhy so many parents are delaying or skipping vaccines—and what it means for the rest of us • BY SETH MNOOKIN
THE VACCINE CONTROVERSY
But over the next couple of days, Julieanna’s condition worsened: She would go from hysterically crying to suddenly appearing limp, and she had powerful bouts of diarrhea. So on Thursday, Flint drove her daughter from their Minnesota home to a hospital about 20 miles away. At fi rst, doctors there suspected
Julieanna had the fl u, but by Friday, her pediatrician was sufficiently concerned that she scheduled more tests, including a CAT scan and a lumbar puncture, which showed that Julieanna had bacterial meningitis, a potentially deadly infection of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord.
Flint was surprised by the diag-nosis. “I’d never even thought of meningitis,” she says. “It didn’t seem like something I had to worry about.” After all, since the availabil-ity of an infant vaccine in 1987, Hib meningitis cases in small children had nearly disappeared (before then, nearly 15,000 kids under age 5 con-tracted Hib meningitis every year, and more than 600 of them died). Brendalee had been vigilant about Julieanna’s receiving all her shots, including the one for Hib. What had gone wrong?
As it turns out, Julieanna’s case was a perfect storm of events that
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her some medicine and put her to bed,” she says. away. At fi rst, doctors there suspected was a perfect storm of events that
Julieanna Metcalf (with mom Brendalee Flint) almost died during an outbreak of bacterial meningitis.
illustrate a potential new health crisis in America. That year, Julieanna was one of five young children in Minnesota who contracted Hib, the state’s first outbreak in more than 15 years, according to the CDC. The parents of three of the children had either skipped or delayed the Hib vaccine. The fourth was a 5-month-old too young to have been fully immunized; the fi fth was Julieanna, who, unbeknownst to her parents, has a rare immune defi ciency that made the Hib vac-cine ineffective in her. Her doctors didn’t immediately recognize the symptoms of the bacteria, perhaps because it had been so long since a case was reported in the area.
Unfortunately, that’s starting to change. Over the past several years, the U.S. has seen outbreaks of not only Hib meningitis but also of other once prevalent childhood scourges like measles. A major cause, say experts, is the growing clusters of parents who are delaying or refusing standard vaccinations. But when parents choose not to vaccinate, they’re not simply putting their own kids at risk; they’re also unwittingly jeopardizing newborns, pregnant women, the elderly, and people like Julieanna with preexist-ing conditions. Those populations are increasingly vulnerable as diseases that we thought had been contained start to return, in larger numbers each year.
“There’s a lot of mistrust
out there”
From Edward Jenner’s realization that cowpox could protect human beings from smallpox in 1796 to the introduction in the U.S. of the polio vaccine in 1955 and the measles vac-cine in 1963, immunizations have allowed us to nearly—and, in the case of smallpox, completely— eliminate diseases that once killed thousands or even millions of people.
As recently as the 1950s and 1960s, it was not uncommon for kids to be born disabled or placed in iron lungs as a result of childhood infections. How did lifesaving vaccines—once greeted with relief and open arms—turn into something so feared?
The current backlash dates to 1998, when British gastroenterolo-gist Andrew Wakefi eld published a paper in the medical journal The Lancet hypothesizing a link between the MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine and autism. His research, based on interviews with the parents of just 12 children, was widely criticized as speculative, but the press—and parents—seized hold.
A year later, a congressionally mandated inquiry highlighted the use of thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative, in some pediatric vaccines. There was no evidence it was harmful, but the Public Health Service and American
Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), hop-ing to forestall p arental anxiety, rec-ommended its removal. (As a result, thimerosal has been absent from nearly all standard pediatric vaccines for a decade.) But the action back-fi red: A grassroots movement, led by about a dozen “mercury moms,” began promoting their belief that many cases of autism were misdiag-nosed cases of mercury poisoning.
Over the past decade, dozens of peer-reviewed studies that have collectively drawn on data from millions of children have consis-tently found no connection between vaccines and autism. In 2010 a multiyear investigation into Wake-fi eld’s work prompted The Lancet to fully retract his paper, and the U.K.’s General Medical Council revoked his British medical license.
Still, the damage was done, and rumors about vaccine safety have continued to spread, especially on-line, where anti-immunization sites
Physicians of Philadelphia. “If you never leave your house and no one ever comes to your house, you might be protected. But quite frankly, it’s impossible to live that way.”
Ironically, it is the very success of
argue that the shots can injure children. While one recent study showed that only about 2 percent of parents refuse all immunizations, more than 1 in 10 skip some vac-cines or delay the age at which they’re given. Increasingly, these parents tend to be clustered together, creating communities where vacci-nation rates may have dropped below the levels needed to keep infectious diseases at bay. Some of the lowest rates occur in affluent, well-educated communities like Boulder, Colo., and Marin County, Calif., where parents are often focused on being environmentally conscious and paying close attention to every aspect of their children’s development.
“Sometimes, when you’re sur-rounded by people who think the way you think, it’s easy to believe that you’re separated from the rest of the world,” says George Wohl-reich, M.D., CEO of the College of
vaccines that may have led some parents to skip their children’s shots. “Today’s parents didn’t grow up seeing their peers affected by these diseases, or living in fear of being diagnosed themselves,” says Amanda
Dempsey, M.D., a pediatrician and researcher at the University of Colorado at Denver. “That can make immunizations start to feel more optional.” But today many parents do know autistic children—making the perceived risks of vaccinating seem a lot more real than the diseases they prevent. “People who don’t vaccinate do think they’re doing the right thing for their chil-dren,” Dempsey says. “There’s a lot of mistrust because there’s a lot of misinformation out there.”
When Genevieve Futrelle’s 7-month-old son was due for his fi rst round of vaccines, “I just had this emotional reaction,” says Futrelle, a fi rst-time mom in New York City. “I didn’t want him to get the [hepa-titis B] shot. I was wary of how many shots kids get, and I just asked [the doctor], ‘Do we need to do this?’ ” Futrelle decided to delay that injec-tion, though she later consented to other standard vaccines. “I just didn’t
PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATION that typically needs to be vaccinated to prevent a disease from spreading.
This is called “herd immunity.”
you go abroad or come into
contact with an infected
person from overseas. “This
summer in Philadelphia we
had a patient with cholera,”
says Wohlreich. “He hopped
on a plane and brought this
disease with him, and it took
some very senior physicians
to fi gure out what it was,
because no one had ever
seen it before.”
2 VACCINES
COMMONLY CAUSE
HARMFUL SIDE EFFECTS.
Vaccines are actually incred-
ibly safe, Wohlreich says. “It
is somewhat common to
have a mild fever. It is some-
what common to have
soreness at the site of the
injection (if there is an injec-
tion). It is very unusual to get
any kind of severe reaction,”
he says. In fact, serious
adverse events are tracked
by the CDC and FDA, and
the rate of occurrence is
extremely small.
3 BABIES’ IMMUNE
SYSTEMS CAN’T
HANDLE THE NUMBER OF
VACCINES GIVEN TODAY.
The CDC recommends that
between birth and age 6
kids get vaccinated against
13 diseases, plus the fl u
(compared with fi ve in the
late 1950s, seven in the
1970s, nine in the mid-
1990s, and 11 in 2000). But
children’s immune systems
are taxed less today than
they were decades ago.
“Today’s vaccines are
so targeted and refi ned
that they contain much
smaller amounts of antigens
compared to when we gave
fewer shots,” says Amanda
Dempsey, M.D., a pediatri-
cian and researcher at
the University of Colorado
at Denver.
4 DELAYING VACCINES
IS SAFER THAN
FOLLOWING THE STANDARD
IMMUNIZATION SCHEDULE.
Some parents worry that
giving too many vaccines at
once can lead to develop-
mental problems. Recently,
however, researchers at the
University of Louisville com-
pared kids who received
their shots on time with kids
whose parents spread them
out; they found that those
who followed delayed
schedules fared the same or
not as well on cognitive
tests as those who followed
the standard schedule. In
addition, “by delaying
vaccines, you’re giving
potentially serious infec-
tions a window of opportu-
nity to take hold,” says
Wohlreich. “It’s like saying,
‘This seat belt is a little too
tight; I’m only going to put it
on halfway into my trip.’ ”
5 NATURAL IMMUNITY
IS BETTER THAN
IMMUNITY FROM VACCINES.
“Natural immunity may last
longer than vaccine-derived
immunity—that’s why we
recommend booster shots
for some vaccines—but that
doesn’t take into account
the risks of actually getting
the disease,” Wohlreich
says. “Parents who take the
kids to a chicken pox party
to purposefully expose them
to the virus have obviously
never seen a child hospital-
ized with, or even killed by,
chicken pox encephalitis.”
Plus, some diseases—like
tetanus—don’t provide any
natural immunity; the only
way to protect yourself is
to get vaccinated.
—Jennifer Rainey Marquez
For more information
about vaccine myths, check
out historyofvaccines.org
5
MYTHS ABOUT
VACCINESThe purported link to autism isn’t the only misconception out there
like the idea of all those chemicals going into his body. He’s so fragile.”
“It’s a ma� er of safeguarding
the community”
Experts say many parents may not realize that a vaccine’s ability to stave off the spread of deadly diseases is most effective only when the vast majority are inoculated. This mecha-nism is called herd immunity: When enough people in a population are vaccinated against a disease— typically 85 to 95 percent—those unable to get vaccinated or whose immune systems are compromised are also protected. While parents who skip vaccines may benefi t from herd immunity, they are also putting it in jeopardy.
“Getting vaccinated isn’t only a matter of safeguarding yourself or your kids; it’s a matter of safeguard-ing the community,” says Anne Schuchat, M.D., director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the CDC. “Right now, as a country, we are so well protected compared to the rest of the world. But that can change.” In France, she notes, the annual number of measles cases jumped from 40 or 50 to 15,000 in just a couple of years. “Enough un-vaccinated people had accumulated,
and suddenly the number exploded without a lot of warning,” Schuchat says. “We don’t want that to happen here. In 2011 we went from an aver-age of 60 cases of measles a year to more than 200. The virus can come in from someone who has visited another country, and it’s usually nipped in the bud, but only if every-one around that first patient is protected by vaccination.”
One place where herd immunity can quickly be compromised is schools. Currently, at least 19 states allow parents to opt out of childhood inoculations for “philosophical” reasons (nearly every state allows a religious exemption, and all allow
medical exemptions), and more and more families are doing so. In 2010 the San Diego Union-Tribune reported that the number of area parents who exempted their kindergartners from vaccines had quadrupled since 1990. In 2010, California schools experi-enced the highest rate of vaccine non-compliance in more than 30 years.
In April 2011, a small private school in Floyd County, Va., tem-porarily closed after 23 of its 45 students were infected with pertussis (whooping cough). “The outbreak was in an area where a lot of people weren’t vaccinating,” says Molly O’Dell, M.D., director of the area health district.
Multiple states have faced pertussis outbreaks this year, and reported cases are at their highest level in half a century. This is in part due to wan-ing immunity in older children or adults who have not received boost-ers. In Washington State, a full-blown epidemic has already infected more than 4,000 people. (The state also has one of the highest vaccine exemption rates in the U.S., though new legislation aims to make it more diffi cult for parents to opt out.) For-tunately, no deaths have been reported so far in Washington—but in 2010 the disease killed 10 infants in Cali-fornia, all under 3 months old, too
young to be fully vaccinated.“Particularly with pertussis, the
most vulnerable can’t get immunized because they’re under 1 month of age,” says Schuchat. “Sometimes our most effective strategy is vaccinating around a person. For example, the elderly are very susceptible to infl u-enza, and that’s one reason we want people who work in hospitals and nursing homes to get the fl u shot. Or in the case of measles, somebody brings the virus into the doctor’s office and babies in the waiting room can become innocent victims.”
“Our agenda is to protect kids”
“I try to stress to my patients that you can’t predict when [vaccine-preventable diseases] are going to show up—and you can’t protect your child any other way,” says Ari Brown, M.D., an Austin, Tex., pediatrician and coauthor of the Baby 411 parenting book series. Brown, also a spokesperson for the AAP, says she’s heard all sorts of rumors about vaccines, including that doctors get paid for each vaccine they administer. “Pediatri-cians have no hidden agenda; our agenda is to protect kids,” she says. “We’ve been there with incredibly sick children, and when you see that, you want to do everything you can to stop it.”
For an increasing number of pediatricians, that includes refusing patients whose parents won’t adhere to the CDC’s immunization sched-ule. A 2011 study found that 30 per-cent of Connecticut pediatricians had asked vaccine-refusing fami-lies to seek care elsewhere, as had 20 percent of Midwestern doctors in a recent survey (up from around 6 percent in 2001).
“The biggest concern is that an unvaccinated child could expose other patients, especially new-borns, to potentially deadly
APPROXIMATE NUMBER OF PEOPLE infected with pertussis (whooping cough) so far this year in Washington State,
where a full-blown epidemic of the disease is under way
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learned her daughter had menin-gitis were harrowing. Julieanna had to be transferred to another hospital, suffered a series of increasingly violent seizures, and had to have brain surgery to remove part of the infection. Eventually, she lost her motor skills—including the ability to chew.
On Feb. 15, 2008, almost a month after Julieanna fi rst got sick,
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Flint knows that in many ways, she’s lucky. The same year that Julieanna was infected with Hib, another child whose parents had chosen not to vaccinate died of the disease. “Anytime I hear about kids getting sick with stuff that is preventable, it frustrates me, knowing that that’s putting other people at risk,” Flint says. “I still cry about it. It’s some-thing I will never get over.”
ARE YOU UP TO DATE?Why kids aren’t the only ones who need vaccines
Each year thousands of Americans
die from vaccine-preventable
diseases, and many more are
hospitalized. We asked Anne
Schuchat, M.D., director of the
National Center for Immunization
and Respiratory Diseases at the
CDC, about some of the most
important immunizations and
boosters for adults. For the full
schedule, go to Parade.com
/vaccines.
PREGNANT WOMEN
Before you conceive, make sure
you’re vaccinated for hepatitis B
and German measles (rubella),
both of which can be passed from
a mother to her child in utero. You
should also get shots for
whooping cough and infl uenza,
which can pose serious risks
during pregnancy and after you
give birth.
HEALTHY ADULTS
Ask your doctor about Tdap
(the adult booster for tetanus,
diphtheria, and pertussis), which
only 8 percent of adults have
received. The U.S. is experiencing
a huge wave of whooping cough,
which can be miserable for you
and life-threatening to a baby.
OLDER ADULTS
Sixty-fi ve or over? You should get
shots for pneumonia, and those
over 60 should be immunized for
shingles—an incredibly painful and
common disease against which
very few eligible people have
been vaccinated.
OVERSEAS TRAVELERS
Keep in mind that you may need
protection even if you’re traveling
to a nonexotic locale like Europe,
which has seen a huge outbreak of
measles in the past couple of
years. Your doctor can make
specifi c recommendations based
on your destination.
—Jennifer Rainey Marquez
Seth Mnookin is the author of The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy.
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