Re Not just CMT - Vaccines

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http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v287n24/abs/jbr20117.html

Results The most commonly found content claims were that vaccines cause

idiopathic illness (100% of sites), vaccines erode immunity (95%), adverse

vaccine reactions are underreported (95%), and vaccination policy is

motivated by profit (91%). The most common design attributes were the

presence of links to other antivaccination sites (100%of sites), information

for legally avoiding immunizations (64%), and the use of emotionally charged

stories of children who had allegedly been killed or harmed by vaccines (55%).

Conclusion Antivaccination Web sites express a range of concerns related to

vaccine safety and varying levels of distrust in medicine. The sites rely

heavily on emotional appeal to convey their message.

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Another important vaccine is for Whooping Cough. This is a description of

children who had it 100 years ago, 1900, before it could be prevented. Once

it starts there is no cure or treatment (which is true of most other

childhood diseases too).

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It occurred to me you might like a fuller description of the children’s

whooping cough. began whooping five weeks ago. She and the other

children had colds. We did not think of its being whooping cough for a week,

when we said if the baby or Katharine or the native children begin to whoop

we would know it was. A week later the baby commenced and some natives also.

By that time was having terrible times. She would feel the attack

coming on and run to her father or mother. There would be three short coughs,

then nothing but whoops, one after another, so hard it seemed as though it

would tear out the lining of her throat and do other harm. There would be

from one to three dozen whoops, most often near the latter number, with only

time between to struggle for breath and choke up phlegm and whatever she had

eaten recently. When got through she would scream with the pain. Now

she only cries.

The baby’s cough is different. She would cough short hard coughs, with

occasional whoop, for about five minutes, after which she would be quite

tired out and minus the last meal. Each child had a slight but increasing

whoop for two weeks, then a feverish day, then three weeks of a very hard

time. Then a slight improvement began. During part of the three weeks, they

had trouble with sore throat, hoarseness and feeling quite sick. used

to feel the cough coming on and run to her father or mother several minutes

before, crying, " It hurts me. " Now it comes suddenly but is not so bad. At

the first cough Dwight makes a dash for the nearest basin and takes it to the

one in charge of the whooping child.

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Perhaps a few children have reacted badly to the vaccines, but many millions

have been spared disfigurement, disabilities or death because they were

vaccinated.

People are making money by scaring people, and are putting our children at

serious risk. (I'm typing with one hand for a few weeks, so please forgive my

typing errors.)

Kathleen

Seattle USA

http://www.icewindow.com