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- From: traub@rtf.bt.co.uk (Michael Traub)
- Newsgroups: misc.health.alternative
- Subject: Re: Vaccinations?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.144516.20037@rtf.bt.co.uk>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 14:45:16 GMT
- References: <1992Dec28.180843.20969@lclark.edu> <TERRYK.92Dec31085321@toady.encore.com>
- Organization: BT Customer Systems, Brighton, UK
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- In article <TERRYK.92Dec31085321@toady.encore.com> terryk@encore.com (Terence M. Kelleher) writes:
- >1- Consider the potential complications of the diseases, not simply
- >the common effects. The permanently harmfull effects of these
- >diseases are far more likely than the potential complications of the
- >vaccine. Mumps may lead to meningitis or to deafness. Measles may
- >lead to blindness. There are other complications. Read up on the
- >diseases.
-
- Consider the *incidence* of complications of the disease and compare that
- to the *incidence* of complication due to the vaccine. Also compare the
- effectiveness of the vaccine against the incidence of complications.
-
- When I was a child my mother regularly took me to see other children who
- had measles, mumps and chicken pox so that we could get the disease. In
- those days no immunization existed. My father (a physician) did not seem
- at all concerned about complications. My sister and I managed a couple of
- weeks off school and I have a scar in the middle of my forehead from
- ignoring mum and scratching my chicken pox. Nowadays however measles and
- mumps have turned into life threatening diseases and the whole population
- requires immunization. Really???
-
- Proper nutrition is far more important than any immunization.
-
- The incidence of polio in the UK is now being blamed on the use of the
- live vaccine. During recent polio outbreaks it was found that of those
- who caught polio a higher percentage had been immunized than those that
- had not. Not so effective eh? Pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine has a
- similarly poor record of effective immunisation.
-
- Another point to bear in mind is the level of protection you are
- providing for your child by vaccinating. I don't know the correct numbers
- but I would think that your child is ten thousand times as likely to be
- run over by a car than to be struck down with any of these diseases. The
- obvious thing to do then is to ban all cars and forget about
- immunisation. Unfortunately cars and immunisations make money for big
- companies.
-
-
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- Michael Traub
- BT Customer Systems, Brighton Systems Centre. traub@btcs.bt.co.uk
-