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[handstil]

Mostly I keep information I collect private, but just yesterday a few friends posted about vaccines, so I thought I'd just leave this entry public in case anyone was interested in looking into these articles further, like I will.

Comments

[headscans]

Thank you for posting this list! I've read about most of those facts before but some were new. Also, I didn't know most sources of the studies.

I am big on vaccination these days because I am about to decide whether to vaccinate or not my newborn girl and the choice is so hard (especially in a country where vaccination is obligatory and only a reasonable pediatrician may help you out but still the pressure and responsibility are crashing me as a new mother).

Are you vaccinating your children?

[esmelee]

• In the USA, the cost of a single DPT shot had risen from 11 cents in 1982 to $11.40 in 1987. The manufacturers of the vaccine were putting aside $8 per shot to cover legal costs and damages they were paying out to parents of brain damaged children and children who died after vaccination. (The Vine, Issue 7, January 1994, Nambour, Qld)
OH GOD.

thank you for sharing.

[ewake]

after the doc i work with told a family that half of all kids who get pertussis were vaccinated, i did some math.

let's say there are 10 kids. 9 are vaccinated, 1 is not. 2 kids get pertussis. half of them were vaccinated. but only 11% of vaccinated kids got it, whereas 100% of the unvaccinated kids got it.

i'm not a proponent of all vaccines, but i'm not sure that this particular statistic is a useful way to look at the utility or efficacy of vaccines.

[handstil]

Totally. I know how things can be worded to sound like a vaccine (or anything!) is not effective.

This list is just things I want to look at more closely. I really want to understand the pros and cons of each vaccine and to make informed choices. The whole thing is so confusing to me! Take E's ped, who is way pro-vaccine but says scary things like "You don't have to be afraid of the mercury in this one!" I'm like "wait, there is mercury in your vaccines? I thought we were done with mercury." Not that I'm getting E any vaccines for a while yet...

[handstil]

I am actually REALLY interested in fact-based pro-vaccination information! It is so easy to find studies like the above, but more difficult to find studies about vaccine efficiency. Maybe I am just exposed to the scary vaccine stuff because I run in those internet circles. ;)

I am not anti-vaccine in a lot of cases. We will probably end up immunizing Elias eventually (Owen was eventually vaccinated, completely) starting around 2. I was really against the birth Hep vaccine, which is what started my feelings of trepidation.