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In the Race
Now, here, you see, it takes all the blogging I can do to keep in the same place. If I want to get somewhere else, I must blog twice as fast as that! You see, I'm in the Red Queen's Race...
That is the Question...
By Janet Evans
Tuesday, Mar 25 2008, 06:35 AM
To vaccinate or not to vaccinate...
For someone like me, who took my babies to a pediatrician (not a family practitioner), read all the books, listened to the advice of others, and followed the "rules," vaccinating my children was a no brainer.
If I had to do it again, I would make the same decision.
It used to be parents who objected to vaccinations did so mainly for religious reasons.
Not so anymore.
There is the big "A" word out there....
Autism.
I agree, it's scary...It's a mystery....The unknown can make us make hard choices.
But in my opinion, as horrible as autism is, it is not proven that it is caused by vaccinations.
Until it is, I would never risk the chance of my child getting a complication, or risking death, from one of the diseases that vaccinations cover.
I would also never risk infecting others with a disease because I made, what I believe is a selfish choice, to not vaccinate my child.
I have never had a child who suffers with autism, nor suffered as a parent of a child with autism.
But, with all of the chemicals we are exposed to in our lives, in our food, in our water, etc. we can't be sure vaccines are the culprit.
"The parents who objected to their children being inoculated are among a small but growing number of vaccine skeptics in California and other states who take advantage of exemptions to laws requiring vaccinations for school-age children.
"The exemptions have been growing since the early 1990s at a rate that many epidemiologists, public health officials and physicians find disturbing.Children who are not vaccinated are unnecessarily susceptible to serious illnesses, they say, but also present a danger to children who have had their shots — the measles vaccine, for instance, is only 95 percent effective — and to those children too young to receive certain vaccines.
"Measles, almost wholly eradicated in the United States through vaccines, can cause pneumonia and brain swelling, which in rare cases can lead to death. The measles outbreak here alarmed public health officials, sickened babies and sent one child to the hospital"
Read the entire article from the New York Times
Public Health Risk Seen As Parents Reject Vaccines í here
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