The Deadliest of Diseases - Page 2

[Veronika01]

New Zealand is often used as a testing ground for new vaccines and medicines. If there are only a few severe reactions it gets passed on to the rest of the world. I would be very wary of giving anything new to my children.

[Pariah]

Thanks for all this info...I'm in the US, but my mother and I were talking about this recently and I'd love to pass the info on to her...

[NYMOM07]

"BUT the govt here has bought in a vax for Meningitis B which is BAD BAD BAD - basically this is not some nice disease - it kills children in this country fast and furious. THere is a 90% take up rate on this vax and I haven't vaxed my kids against it."


i would look at the risk to benefit ratio. i dont vax my son right now, but if there was a SERIOUS outbreak, (and i mean serious) I would reconsider. so , if this meningitis is as common as you say- from your own experience, not what the doctors tell you, i would probably do it -i am never 100% sure, but again, if the real fear was there of a high chance of my young baby getting meningitis, I think it would be important.

[NamastePlatypus]

Man I love you ladies!! It was threads like this that led me to the confident decision to never vax my kids as long as we are healthy and not in a third world enviroment!