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Originally posted by Suspiria
reply to post by xFloggingMaryx
Well done, lets hope you don't end up eating your words one day.
I'm sure everyone on the planet who ever got an STD got them from strangers right?
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.
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. Our findings suggest that the use of the acellular vaccine may be one factor contributing to these genetic changes."