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post #1 of 25
9/22/08 at 1:01am
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http://health.msn.com/kids-health/ar...6552&GT1=31036

Here is an article talking about "5 myths about childhood vaccines".
Read it and puke.
post #2 of 25
9/22/08 at 1:05am
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Likewise, if your child develops a life-threatening reaction to a particular vaccine, further doses of that vaccine won't be given.
Well, that's comforting.
post #3 of 25
9/22/08 at 1:10am
This one is just as fun... :

http://health.msn.com/health-topics/...ntid=100213272
post #4 of 25
9/22/08 at 1:28am
They forgot the "This advertisement paid for by Merck and Co." disclaimer at the bottom...
post #5 of 25
9/22/08 at 10:11am
Wow - that's pretty hard core. You can't miss any vaccines or you are putting your child in danger? Rigid much?
post #6 of 25
9/22/08 at 10:30am
"Early vaccination—sometimes beginning shortly after birth—is essential because these diseases are most likely to occur when a child is very young and the risk of complications is greatest. If you postpone vaccines until a child is older, it may be too late."

Right, cause a newborn is gonna run out and have sex and share drug needles so we better get that Hep B in them the moment they come out of the birth canal. :
post #7 of 25
9/22/08 at 10:49am
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Originally Posted by abomgardner417 View Post
Right, cause a newborn is gonna run out and have sex and share drug needles...

...kids these days...
post #8 of 25
9/22/08 at 11:17am
The story is the same all the time. I am so very sick and tired of seeing them beat a dead horse with the autism thing. For pete's sake, that is not the only thing that people are concerned about! : It's their way of making others think that non-vaxers are just a bunch of dolts IMO.
post #9 of 25
9/22/08 at 1:28pm
I still believe there is a direct link between mercury and autism, but I'm also not a fan of the other ingredients they put in vaccines, like aluminum and human diploid cells. And I haven't seen any real evidence that vaccines even work like they're supposed to, so...
post #10 of 25
9/22/08 at 1:38pm
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"...when we look at people who’ve received vaccinations, they have lower rates of non-vaccine-preventable diseases, suggesting that their immune systems are at least as strong as those of people who haven’t been vaccinated."
Heh, yeah. They're so strong they turn on themselves and produce autoimmune diseases. Yay.
post #11 of 25
9/22/08 at 1:39pm
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Originally Posted by Sileree View Post
Heh, yeah. They're so strong they turn on themselves and produce autoimmune diseases. Yay.
Yeah, isn't that lovely? :
post #12 of 25
9/22/08 at 4:09pm
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Originally Posted by CCChanel View Post
...kids these days...
post #13 of 25
9/22/08 at 8:11pm
How on earth have we survived as a species if we are all so "at risk" of all these dangerous diseases and germs?? You'd think we would have died off eons ago. I think they compare today to 1850 on the open prairie. Whereas then, they had no fresh fruit or running water, yet they somehow still had a few people survive, huh? Today, I have running water, sodium ascorbate, access to alternative health care providers to help bolster our immune systems if we do encounter illnesses, etc, etc. They make it seem like there is only ONE right answer. How many times as medicine been wrong? We are always learning more and more.
post #14 of 25
9/22/08 at 8:59pm
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Originally Posted by greeba View Post
Wow - that's pretty hard core. You can't miss any vaccines or you are putting your child in danger? Rigid much?
All kids must be in a lot of danger then, because they have not yet received all the zillions of future vaxes that haven't been invented yet. As soon as a vaccine for strep throat is on the market, strep throat will turn into a dreaded plague and we'll be putting our children's lives at risk if we don't get it!
post #15 of 25
9/22/08 at 9:06pm
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Originally Posted by DQMama View Post
All kids must be in a lot of danger then, because they have not yet received all the zillions of future vaxes that haven't been invented yet. As soon as a vaccine for strep throat is on the market, strep throat will turn into a dreaded plague and we'll be putting our children's lives at risk if we don't get it!
Yep. I wonder what vaxes would be created in the future. Or maybe I really don't want to think about that.
post #16 of 25
9/22/08 at 10:05pm
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Originally Posted by CCChanel View Post

From the article:
"Take chicken pox, for example. If you’re old enough to be considering vaccinations for your youngster, chances are you are old enough to remember the chicken pox as a rather mild childhood illness, provided that you contracted it at a young age. In fact, only 4 in 100,000 young kids will die from chicken pox. Even if those are risks you’re willing to live with, you need to ask yourself if you want your child to suffer through the disease and if you or your spouse can afford to take a week or two off of work to care for your sick child."

I still don't see why this is a valid reason for vaccinations for most people - you don't want to take a week off? Obviously some people would lose their jobs if they took a week off, so I see that, but for a lot of us, it would just mean taking a week of vacation time and maybe doing some work from home or something. Also, I remember having the chicken pox - yeah, it sucked, but I have fond memories of my mom paying extra special attention just to me, getting to stay home from school for a week and watching tv whenever I wanted to Not such a bad experience, and not exactly suffering....
post #17 of 25
9/22/08 at 10:10pm
arguments about saving parents from having to care for sick children only hold water if vaccines are guaranteed to be totally safe.

missing a week of work is minor compared to ending up with a permanently damaged child who just happened to be the one to have a bad response to a vaccine. the more vaccines given, the more likely that a bad response will hit.
post #18 of 25
9/23/08 at 2:03pm
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Originally Posted by KLM99 View Post
I have fond memories of my mom paying extra special attention just to me, getting to stay home from school for a week and watching tv whenever I wanted to Not such a bad experience, and not exactly suffering...
Me too. I wrestled with my Dad and played with a friend who had already had it after she got back from school. But I guess thats "suffering".
post #19 of 25
9/26/08 at 1:58pm
OMG I'm making an appt. right now to get my kids vaccinated! :Puke Give me a break! Do these kind of articles really make people change their minds?
post #20 of 25
9/26/08 at 2:34pm
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Do these kind of articles really make people change their minds?
I am afraid they do (MDC-ers excluded of course :-)).

I especially like this one:

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Vaccine side effects are dangerous.
Sure, they are no facts, no concerns, but a scientifically proofen myth!
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