November 09, 2007Americans May Be Over-VaccinatedI know that dipping into any news around vaccines brings with it angry new readers, so let's be clear: this post has nothing to do with autism or alleged connections between autism and preservatives in vaccines. Now that that's out of the way, researchers at Oregon Health & Science University report that Americans may be overvaccinating their kids and that the many, many courses of vaccines we make kids take these days may be a waste of money. Fascinating. Even more fascinating: who sponsored all the studies saying kids needed so many vaccines in the first place? Could it be Big Pharma? Nah, they wouldn't want the American public wasting money. Posted by Philip Dawdy at November 9, 2007 12:03 AM
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Public schools require many vaccinations, including Hep B, etc, and more--not just for enrollment to Kindergarten--some in order to transition to middle/junior high. Parents can take the route of "religious beliefs" et al. but bottom line is that residing in the public domain requires conforming to [in my opinion]some dangerous vaccinations. When one of my kids had a 3 month migraine--I connected it to the 3 series shot she was required [as all students] to enter 6th grade. I fought my way into Children's Hospital w/out a referral, after my mom called me and told me "I think she's allergic to the BASE." The neuro-doc gave my oldest an antihistamine, and the damn 3 month migraine was never seen again. I told him my thought on the vaccine "base". He agreed. My youngest ['got that out of the way re: autism'] had an adverse reaction to a MMR vaccine in the late 80's.[As an infant]. That is still up for grabs. Per her obvious autistic traits. Big topic. It's why many parents home school their children. [to avoid potential harm to their child via mandatory vaccinations]. Posted by: Stephany at November 8, 2007 11:48 PMDon't know much about vaccines, but they don't seem to have a very good record. Vaccines APPEAR to cause more of the epidemics they're promoted to prevent than they do to cure them. Maybe I'm wrong, you have to judge for yourselves but these figures don't look encouraging to me: http://www.network54.com/Forum/281849/message/1192101310 Post a comment
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