Againsheila
Gold Member
The author obviously never had the experience of living with someone who contracted poliomyelitis before Jonas Salks' polio vaccine became widely available and still hates the smell of hot wet wool. Or buried a child that died of scarlet fever before penicillin could destroy the streptococcus bacteria that caused it; or the one in 8 children who died of smallpox in the eighteenth century in Europe and Russia before Louis Pasture came along and noticed milkmaids everywhere were not ever dying of nor even contracting the disease smallpox due to having light cases of cowpox that gave them immunity and developed a simple vaccine for preventing the greater disease."Surprisingly, vaccination has never actually been clinically proven to be effective in preventing disease, for the simple reason that no researcher has directly exposed test subjects to diseases (nor is it possible for them to ethically do so)."
From Vaccines: know the risks
Polio has been virtually wiped out of this hemisphere thanks to Jonas Salk and another strain by Sabin. I'm not certain withdrawal of vaccines is wise.
Jonas Salk's vaccine was banned for a long time due to a bad batch which actually GAVE people polio. It was replaced with the oral polio vaccine which for many years was the sole cause of Polio in the USA. Now they are once again giving out the killed vaccine (Jonas Salk's).
"Routine smallpox vaccination among the American public stopped in 1972 after the disease was eradicated in the United States. " My last smallpox vaccine was in 1976, just before I went to Mexico. Being a military brat I had many smallpox vaccines and trust me, they hurt even today, why would you do that to your kids unless you had to?
Now they vaccinate against measles, mumps, chickenpox, all kids of childhood diseases that actually make kids stronger...
My kids never had mumps, or measles, but they had chicken pox. To tell the truth, if I had it to do over again, I think I'd rather have the measles and the mumps than autism.