Just one of those things that bother me...

[sflynt]

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ummm.... seriously, was the neccesary?

That doesn't count towards the 30 posts a month, btw

[amyrouse]

So...where is all this evidence that vaccines are dangerous?  If you're talking about the study that linked vaccines to autism, that was refuted back in 2004 by the authors.  Vaccines have virtually eliminated different diseases like smallpox... and, to put it quite bluntly, the side effects from a single person taking the vaccine are nothing compared to what could potentially happen should an outbreak occur.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-cKzzPkz2o

[AmyTrivitt]

I am against the flu shot and the new h1n1. My youngest daughter has NEVER had a flu shot in her life. Me and my oldest daughter got a flu shot ONCE in her life and I will never do it again. The H1N1 sorry NO WAY not enough time or evidence has went into this shot for my children nor I to be guinea pigs.

[amyrouse]

Responsible parenting is knowing what is good for your child, not following some mandate by some government buerocrat that has his pockets lined by pharmacutical companies.

We have us a conspiracy theorist! 



Vaccines, and why they are given to infants: http://www.scq.ubc.ca/the-anti-vaccine-disease-rant-or-reason/
Notice this reference is a scientific magazine and has references and is peer reviewed...not anecdotal evidence.

Another one in favor of vaccines, specifically addressing vaccine testing: http://www.drwile.com/lnkpages/render.asp?vac_test

Information about the sicko Wakefield, a big name in anti-vaccination lore: http://briandeer.com/wakefield-deer.htm

The National Network for Immunization website: http://www.immunizationinfo.org/



I've studied Epidemiology and how disease spreads... its some scary stuff.  When I read articles like the one I posted about pertussis, when I see people like Wakefield and how he abused poor children to prove a point, and when I see people like Jenny McCarthy spreading their outdated crap, it makes me sick.  I also feel nauseated when I hear people claim "Big Pharma" is out to make money by lining the pockets of politicians and pushing vaccines on doctors.  The American Academy of Pediatrics...the main purpose of that group is to protect the health of kids!  To think that they would develop an immunization schedule that isn't what is best for kids seems ludicrous to me.  They are constantly updating and revising their publications and recommendations on what is best for children... if there was an issue with vaccines, that would be one of the first things they would jump on.  Notice how the flu shot is not recommended for children under 6 months old?  The studies that they have done religiously have shown that the flu shot is not good for kids that age.  Well, then, if vaccines were bad for the ages they have published the schedule for, would they honestly have recommended those ages based on money alone?  They're rich enough without the bribes!  They specialize in medicine for kids!

If you take a good long look at the list of vaccine preventable diseases on the National Network for Immunization website, how many of them are currently widespread and killing people off?  Now how many of them are deadly?  How many of them have been have been the cause of an epidemic that has thinned out a population?  Take a look here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics.  Guess what is repeatedly on that list... yeah, its influenza.  The flu.  It can be deadly.  Measles, Mumps, Yellow Fever, Typhus, and Polio are also on the list.  Repeatedly.  Large amounts of people have been infected and have died from the spread of those diseases.  We have vaccines to prevent them.  Seems simple to me, especially coupled with the video I posted regarding herd immunity earlier in this topic.

I am not an expert in medicine, though.  I can't help but wonder what Jordandog thinks about this topic... hint hint wink wink nudge...

[amyrouse]

Thought I might add something that I forgot earlier...

Currently in Haiti there is an outbreak of Cholera, although I'm unsure yet as to whether it is being classified as an epidemic.  Cholera was one of the first diseases upon which an epidemiological study was done... and a disease that anyone studying epidemiology will read about.  For those who don't know, epidemiology is the study of the spread of disease.

There is a vaccine that has been developed for Cholera... however currently it is not recommended by the CDC.  There are other ways to prevent the disease than through a shot, such as sanitation and sterilization.  http://www.cdc.gov/cholera/general/#vaccine

Sounds like a piece of evidence against Big Pharma just wanting to push vaccines on people and line their pockets...