Pox party

Measles party involves conscious merging of healthy, non-vaccinated children against measles with children who are acutely ill with measles. The goal is the contagion of unvaccinated children with measles virus, so they develop the disease and thus immunity to measles.

So-called measles parties to German measles parties ', were popular in the United States prior to the introduction of vaccination against measles in the 1950s and 1960s. The parties through a renaissance, especially in the UK, as the measles - mumps - rubella vaccine (MMR ) was falsely implicated in autism. This presumption was clearly rebutted.

It is unclear whether this connection is based on a misunderstanding. In the UK, have long been known as German measles parties popular to reduce vaccination costs. The rubella are known in English as well as German measles, literally so as, German measles '; this could be misdiagnosed as, German measles Party ' (English: measles party ) have been translated.

Such meetings have also been reported in other diseases, such as chickenpox ( " pox party ").

Risks

Anti-immunization and Impfskeptiker justify measles parties so that measles a "harmless " childhood disease and had a "natural" designated infection with " wild viruses " having advantages over vaccination. The measles disease is, however, significantly riskier than measles vaccination, as not infrequently occur serious permanent damage and even fatal evolution. For mortality from measles infections, there are different information. They range from 1:10,000 to 1:20,000 (Robert Koch Institute, Germany) 1:500 (Centers for Disease Control, United States) and 3:1000 (ECDC, European Union), up to 28% in developing countries. The most common cause of death are pneumonia, occurring in an average of 6 % ​​of disease as a complication. At 0.1 % of those infected, there is a brain inflammation that has about 40% of the patients because permanent brain damage. Furthermore, the hopeless running subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE ) can occur in adolescents and children when they become ill with measles before their second birthday. For example, a 14 year-old boy has died from this complication, since he was infected as an infant in the waiting room of a pediatrician by an eleven-year measles sick boy whose parents had rejected the measles vaccination her son in June 2013.

Legal Aspects

Under German law, the intentional Teach pathogens met - including measles viruses - the offense of grievous bodily harm ( § 224 Paragraph 1 No. 1 2 Old Criminal Code. ) Or the attempted grievous bodily harm; occur due to complications a permanent injury is serious injury. As to whether to make the guardians of a child punishable if they infect their child with measles intentionally to immunize it, there are so far no published court decisions. In a post of legal education literature, the criminality of such behavior was discussed and affirmed for lack of sufficient justification, maybe it satisfies the conditions of the maltreatment of charges ( § 225 StGB). Whether it can be justified in some cases, preferable to this form of immunization vaccination (for example, due to toxicity of the vaccine ), requires the assessment of each case.

The detection of viruses, suspected of having a disease, an actual infection and death from measles in Germany according to § 6 para 1 No. 1 lit. notifiable h of infection protection law. In the medical literature is argued that measles parties therefore IfSG could be punishable to the care provider pursuant to § § 74, 75. In the legal literature, however, is a criminal offense of the physician according to § § 74 in conjunction with 73 IfSG discussed.

In Austria arrives for a deliberate induction of infection criminal liability for intentional harm to people from communicable diseases according to § 178 StGB into consideration. After the Swiss Penal Code culpability comes to personal injury, breach of fiduciary duty and education and dissemination of human disease into consideration.

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