OreGal said:
It is just easy to be anti-vaccine when you've never had to hold a mom who has lost her four year old son to a very preventable disease or work with children seriously disfigured from diseases we don't have to deal with here in the states. And, while moms in many developing nations pray for these vaccines, we can sit in the comfort of our homes knowing that because the majority of moms vaccinate in our country, chances are our children will be safe if we decide to stand on a soapbox and not vaccinate.
I also have a son with autism and I'm a scientist. No study linking vaccines with autism is reproducible. Some of us believe ultrasounds might be more likely but many of the same moms who believe vaccines are so awful would never want to believe that because they wanted their ultrasounds
It is just easy to Pro-vaccine when you've never had to hold a child who was injured by these vaccines.
"EXCLUSIVE
By Rachel Ellis, Medical Correspondent
A key study repeatedly used by the Government to support the MMR vaccine
was wrongly carried out and gave inaccurate results, experts claimed
yesterday.
The Danish research, which examined the medical records of more than
half-a-million children born over eight years, concluded there was no link
between children given MMR and the onset of autism.
But fresh analysis of the data by four experts to be published this week in
the Journal of
American Physicians and Surgeons suggest there is a link.
The first new study, by Dr Samy Suissa, an epidemiologist at McGill
University,
Montreal, who looked at the same data the Danish doctors used, concludes
that children who received the triple jab were 45 per cent more likely to
develop autism than those who were not given it.
A second piece of research - by Dr Fouad Yazbak, an American paediatrician
- shows a 400
per cent rise in autism after the introduction of MMR in Denmark, even
after taking into account greater awareness of the condition.
8-29-04"
And as far as 3rd world countries wishing they had these vaccines, Africa has a polio vaccination rate on par with Europe, but have yet to make much progress in eradicating the disease.
Thirdly, I agree about the ultrasounds.