1. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sat, Aug 15, 2009, 10:05 pm PDT

You should be ashamed of yourself to suggest that there is no validity to the claim that mercury(thimersol) can increase the Autism. So in the spirit of full disclosure have you EVER received money(in any form) from drug companies that produce these vaccines? The IOM concluded that there was not enough evidence to prove one way or the other whether mercury can cause learning disabilities in children. It did, however, find enough evidence that mercury can damage the brain to recommend that all mercury preservatives be removed from vaccines and over-the-counter products. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ordered drug companies to remove mercury from childhood vaccines that year. http://www.ebmonline.org/cgi/reprint/228/6/660.pdf

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2. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Wed, Aug 19, 2009, 10:32 am PDT

I totally agree. These celebrities who write books re: things medical who have no science or medical background &/or experience have alot of nerve trying to influence those who are gullible and also uneducated. Many an epidemic has been avoided by vaccines.

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3. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Wed, Aug 19, 2009, 12:05 pm PDT

The ariticle states: "Even though less than 1 percent of children do not receive the vaccine, the author of the study estimated that 11 percent of all cases of whooping cough in the U.S. were related to children whose parents turned down the inoculations." So, if read this correctly, that means that 89% who got whooping cough got the inoculations. How is that a claim to get your child vaccinated?

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4. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Wed, Aug 19, 2009, 12:16 pm PDT

"Even though less than 1 percent of children do not receive the vaccine, the author of the study estimated that 11 percent of all cases of whooping cough in the U.S. were related to children whose parents turned down the inoculations." Help me out with the math here... Based on this claim, I'm I to believe that 89% of the cases of whooping cough were inoculated but still got the disease? If this statement is true how do you support vaccinations when up to 89% of those who get whooping cough got the vaccine.? Why get the shot the then? completely descredited?

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5. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Wed, Aug 19, 2009, 12:49 pm PDT

Do Vaccines Actually Prevent Disease? This important question does not appear to have ever been adequately studied. Vaccines are enormously profitable for drug companies and recent legislation in the U.S. has exempted lawsuits against pharmaceutical firms in the event of adverse reactions to vaccines which are very common. In 1975 Germany stopped requiring pertussis (whooping cough) vaccination. Today less than 10 % of German children are vaccinated against pertussis. The number of cases of pertussis has steadily decreased[3] even though far fewer children are receiving pertussis vaccine. After institution of diphtheria vaccination in England and Wales in 1894 the number of deaths from diphtheria rose by 20 % in the subsequent 15 years. Germany had compulsory vaccination in 1939. The rate of diphtheria spiraled to 150,000 cases that year whereas, Norway which did not have compulsory vaccination, had only 50 cases of diphtheria the same year. The continued presence of these infectious diseases in children who have received vaccines proves that life long immunity which follows natural infection does not occur in persons receiving vaccines. The injection process places the viral particles into the blood without providing any clear way to eliminate these foreign substances. Dr. W. Torch was able to document 12 deaths in infants which appeared within 3½ and 19 hours of a DPT immunization. He later reported 11 new cases of SIDS death and one near miss which had occurred within 24 hours of a DPT injection. When he studied 70 cases of SIDS two thirds of these victims[6] had been vaccinated from one half day to 3 weeks prior to their deaths. None of these deaths was attributed to vaccines. Vaccines are a sacred cow and nothing against them appears in the mass media because they are so profitable to pharmaceutical firms. There is valid reason to think that not only are vaccines worthless in preventing disease they are counterproductive because they injure the immune system permitting cancer, auto-immune diseases and SIDS to cause much disability and death.

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6. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Wed, Aug 19, 2009, 1:15 pm PDT

It is funny that it is Doctor's and Doctor's families that are the least vaccinated group of the population. Also you state that the non-vaccinated kids are a threat to other vaccinated children in the neighborhood, yet this contradicts that the vaccines work, if those children are vaccinated against the disease and the vaccine works then how can a non-vaccinated kid be a threat to them? It is good to hear a Baltimore M.D. refuse to treat parents who don't vaccinate. These parents' kids will grow up healthier with less visits to a pediatrician anyway. Another typical article from a disease care rather than heath care specialist.

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7. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Wed, Aug 19, 2009, 7:03 pm PDT

I don't understand why a doctor wouldn't see a child not vaccinated. If the other children are fully immunized and the vaccine is so effective what increased risk for them would there be? I'm afraid that doesn't make sense.

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8. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Thu, Aug 20, 2009, 3:53 am PDT

This is so funny. The doctor that refuses to see children that do not have the shots. But they endanger neighbor children and the child's classmates as well. BULL If they had there shots then why are you so worried about a child that does not giving it to the ones that did. Scare tactics are not working anymore. You can say what ever but what I said here is true. And the studies found no conclusive evidence of causing autism.Then why has the number of children diagnosed with this increased over the years. Oh let me guess well it has been studied more and we just find that it just has and now we no what to call it.Bull

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9. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Thu, Aug 20, 2009, 6:52 am PDT

I quote from the article "Some of these parents have heard the (very much mistaken) claim that childhood vaccinations increase the risk of autism in children" Is anyone old enough to remember when the government told parents not to hold their child more then it was necessary to take physical care of them? Or that Mercurochrome was the medicine that you must put on their wounds? Or that babies can't feel pain and that is why for operations you only needed to paralyze them, nothing for the pain? Unfortunately vaccinations are a gray area that require a lot of thought for both sides of the issue and there is no easy answer.My kids are vaccinated but we didn't do it on schedule and most of them were years ago when they didn't hit them with nearly so many as they do now. But I really dislike the tone of this doctor, who couldn't see a gray area if it came up and bit her!

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10. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Mon, Aug 24, 2009, 1:38 pm PDT

"Even though less than 1 percent of children do not receive the vaccine, the author of the study estimated that 11 percent of all cases of whooping cough in the U.S. were related to children whose parents turned down the inoculations." I find this statement quite interesting...and let me be the first to say that I absolutely believe tht 11% of unvaccinated children develop whooping cough - BUT!!! what about the other 89%? Based on the useless dribble of this "doctor" getting a whooping cough vaccine does absolutely nothing to prevent your chances of getting sick - as a matter of fact, it appears to me to worsen your chances. This "doctor" needs to go back to the dark ages, from where he crawled - IDIOT...do your own research people, and stop listening to these idiots.

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11. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Oct 25, 2009, 7:48 pm PDT

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