When you look at the CDC site (on the parent's pages) they come up with a very high death rate pre-vaccine, but they don't give a year. So pre-vaccine could be anywhere from 1910 to...
Heathergirl,
Mumps numbers you presented are certainly interesting.
What you left out: how many of the cases with complications were in teens and adults.
I've never seen such an evaluation of pre-vaccine deaths and complications where...
Actually, no, drug companies also test other stuff against established drugs. Because you can't leave a sick person untreated.
I got this from a book I read on Vioxx.
One of the Vioxx studies tested it against a well-established...
Eradicate mumps?
Why?
Why spend millions of dollars, inflict live virus vaccines on toddlers, give boosters throughout life...to try to eradicate an illness that is incredibly mild in almost all children.
We have a really different...
Speaking as a government employee (on a very low level), every once in a while someone will have to demonstrate that they are doing something about this or that "problem."
I'll bet that there is some sort of official concern...
Here is an interesting article on vaccines from India, arguing against adding a pentavalent vaccine which includes Hib to their schedule.
http://jacob.puliyel.com/download.php?id=212
Well, yes and no, heathergirl.
For example, polio was floating around for thousands of years. But paralytic polio was not. It is a disease of modernity.
Mumps keeps popping up, in spite of the vaccine. Unfortunately, it is popping up...
Japan doesn't have polio.
http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/destinations/japan.aspx
Official CDC info on travel to Japan. I would use this as a starting point and then do independent research on anything the CDC recommends. They are totally,...
