Like I said on Offit-- he gives you the studies he is talking about and most you can just look up and read for yourself (and if you don't have access to the study, let me know and I know a few people who can get access)
on the "100,000" vaccine thing, he was talking about how many antigens a baby comes into contact with every day:
Quote:
| "Children have an enormous capacity to respond safely to challenges to the immune system from vaccines," says Dr. Offit. "A baby's body is bombarded with immunologic challenges - from bacteria in food to the dust they breathe. Compared to what they typically encounter and manage during the day, vaccines are literally a drop in the ocean." |
he he is talking about the study that came up with that number, where is is looking at how many antigens a person can take in a day:
Quote:
Offit set out to determine two factors: how many B cells, which make antibodies, a person has in a milliliter of blood and how many different epitopes, the part of a bacterium or virus that is recognized by the immune system, there are in a vaccine. Then, he came up with a rough estimate: a person could handle 100,000 vaccines — or up to 10,000 vaccines at once. Currently the most vaccines children receive at any one time is five.
He also published his findings in Pediatrics. Soon, the number was attached to Offit like a scarlet letter. “The 100,000 number makes me sound like a madman. Because that’s the image: 100,000 shots sticking out of you. It’s an awful image,” Offit says. “Many people — including people who are on my side — have criticized me for that. But I was naive. In that article, I was being asked the question and that is the answer to the question.” |
the findings of that study may turn you off...but i think it is still an important study to read i think. the body can handle all these antigens; and i think this demonstrates why many combination vaccines have equal or less reactions than their component vaccines given in singles.
and with the institute for vaccine safety...when i read stuff on there, i can go on pubmed, google scholar or the like and look it up myself. i read that the measles portion has not and probably can not shed and cause infection. i also read that it cannot cause SSPE while natural measles infection CAN and does cause SSPE. all could be varified with studies I found using pubmed and google scholar.
reading the source material is important...you can see that plainly with the 100,000 vaccine quote. i can pulll up the pediatrics study he did that that came from, looking at how many antigens our immune system can handle. when you read the source material, it is definitely telling us a lot more and in a lot different way than people use that line for, kwim?
