Are other countries as vax-happy as US?? - Page 2

[capricorn]

Originally Posted by mommyofmany

Or is just here?? And what kind of schedule do they have??

I'm curious....

Personally I think that the USA is probably the most vaccine-crazy country in the world. It's in any case where a lot of the new vaccines crowding the world's vaccination schedules come from.

I also wonder if the US political leadership appears to be so out of control as a result of vaccine damage of the sort described by Harris Coulter in his book "Vaccination, Sociopathy and Criminality - the medical assault on Americans' brains."

Voltaire's words "The world is a mental sylum run by its worst inmates" certainly appear to be a valid description of today's world situation.

[capricorn]

Originally Posted by marnie

my daughter was born in italy and lived there for her first year. their vax schedule is similar to ours with the exception that it's a public health system and vaccinations are required - not just for school, but in general.

since we moved to the US we receive letters from the italian department of health (because my daughter is an italian citizen) asking for our health records to prove that she's complying. we risk (at the least) fines if she's not kept up to the italian requirements, and they will check her records the next time we try to enter the country (her passport is italian). she may be refused entry/quarantined until she is up to date.

I have heard that the Italain authorities have become a lot more relaxed about mandatory vaccination regulations in recent years. You may find a sympathetic doctor somewhere who may give you a certificate withour actually giving the shots.

All the best!

PS A few years ago an Italian Health Minister was jailed for having accepted a huge bribe from a vaccine manufacturer in return for making the Hepatitis B vaccine compulsory in Italy.

[EdnaMarie]

Regarding Cuba... well, they do have lower infant mortality than the U.S. so I wouldn't be so quick to mock them.

Regarding "the former Soviet Union"- did you mean, in the Soviet Union they were required, or they are required in the places that comprise the FSU?

In any case, the USSR doctors never vaccinated sick children; they also allowed exemptions for certain cases; and they were slower to approve new vaccines. Presently, they have several vaccines which the US does not have- including BCG, which I am trying to figure out how to get out of without having the local nurse come to my door every day to complain. They have the chicken pox vaccine. Most FSU countries go by the WHO standards but I think they are more wary of needles than we are.

"they could be very rude and pushy!"

Nobody's saying the Soviet doctors were NICE about it. But they do do the forms, they did have the exemptions, they do ask you when your kid was sick and delayed vaccinations for sick children, about reactions in the family, etc. Now, and in the past, as far as I am told.

[Electra375]

I grew up in Latin America. The compliance rate was high. Vaccines there were just like the US. Anyone thinking someone of Latin American origin will carry disease is saddly mistaken. I hate the illegal allien issues right now, my mother is just as big a bigot as anyone I've heard around here. I hear the words "dirty Mexican" all the time and it makes me mad and I'm not even from Mexico!

Where I grew up you had to have blood tests to get a drivers license, but not a marriage license!!!

Anyway, WHO is almost as bad as the CDC. It was the WHO who immunized girls with Tetanus that alledgedly was also a birth control vax.

[kxsiven]

Updated list on European countries and vaccination schedules;

http://www.euvac.net/graphics/euvac/...n/finland.html

Vaccinations are not mandatory here in Finland - no one asks after them but pretty much everybody vaccinates.