reply to post by Blaine91555
First of all vaccines have saved and continue to save many lives. Each one has to be taken on its own merit. For instance the vaccine for Whopping
Cough is safe and yet paranoid delusional people are causing the unnecessary deaths of many children, sometimes their own. Radicalism is never
good.
I would recommend doing some research about the side affects of any vaccine before taking it or giving it to any children. If you do a google search
on the subject, I recommend skipping to about page 3 of the search results, and then start clicking and reading.
About the whooping cough vaccine being safe, when you start looking at statistics regarding how many people got the disease, and how many died, you
also have to look at the total population of the area where the outbreak is taking place, and figure out the percentage of the population who was
actually affected.
In California, in 2010, the rate of infection works out to about 16 in 100,000 people. These cases were described as confirmed, or suspected cases of
whooping cough, so the number of cases per thousand could actually be lower.
10 babies died, and 9 of them were Hispanic. These babies were very young babies. These children could have had some underlying condition such as
poor nutrition, or poor pre-natal care that caused them to be particularly susceptible to the disease.
Getting back to the whooping cough vaccine being safe, recent studies done suggest that there may be some questions.
At least in rich countries, many people may think that whooping cough - also known as pertussis - is a killer from a pre-vaccination era. The new
study, which is published in this month's edition of the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, emphasises that incidence rates have been recently
increasing in many industrialised countries. Prior to this study, scientists were unsure why.
Now it seems an upgrade to a new type of vaccine may be to blame. Up until 1997, a "whole-cell" vaccine was used before it was phased out
over two years because of concerns about side effects. Since 1999, a new "acellular" vaccine has been used. One of the authors of the study,
Ruiting Lan, told The Advertiser of Adelaide, South Australia:
"A key issue is that the whole-cell vaccine contained hundreds of antigens, which gave broad protection against many strains of pertussis. But
the acellular vaccine contains only three to five antigens. [color=Red]Our findings suggest that the use of the acellular vaccine may be one factor
contributing to these genetic changes."[/color]
With the reported autisim rate being about 1 in 130 nationwide, which is a h3ll of a lot higher than 16 in 100,000 (and this is only for the state of
California, not the whole US) I think I would rather take my chances on NO vaccine.
After all, if vaccines work as stated, your vaccine will protect you, will it not?
