Vaccinations Still Stir Dose of Caution

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" According to the Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention, childhood immunization rates in the United States are

at an all-time high, and the majority of health professionals

credit immunizations for the enormous improvement in children's

health that has taken place in this country. "

Boy, what planet do they live on - 'enormous improvement in children's

health'? I was a pediatric nurse throughout the 70's. Never saw the

asthma, allergies, autism, brain tumors, diabetes, ADD/ADHD that we see

today. This is what I look at for the true state of health - the numbers

of chronically ill children.

Sheri

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August 8, 2001

U.S. IMMUNIZATION NEWS

" Vaccinations Still Stir Dose of Caution "

Indianapolis Star (www.starnews.com) (08/07/01) P. A1; Barton,

Although most doctors and health officials say the benefits of

vaccination far outweigh the dangers, some researchers and

activists continue to question the side effects and safety of

vaccine use. According to the Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention, childhood immunization rates in the United States are

at an all-time high, and the majority of health professionals

credit immunizations for the enormous improvement in children's

health that has taken place in this country. Dr. Gaebler,

associate professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine

and a specialist in pediatric infectious diseases, notes that

many diseases found in other parts of the world have been wiped

out in the United States because of vaccines. In Russia, for

example, children are vulnerable to diphtheria, which can cause

paralysis, heart failure, breathing problems, and death, while

children in the Dominican Republic are still vulnerable to polio,

which can kill or paralyze its victims. In the United States,

there has not been a single case of polio for over two decades.

Nevertheless, there has been some concern about the side-effects

caused by vaccines. Parents of autistic children, for example,

blame vaccines for their children's condition, even though a

definite connection has not been proven by research. For these

reasons, lawmakers have placed some immunization safeguards in

the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, which among

other things, mandates that physicians inform parents about the

risks and benefits of vaccines, and also establishes a federal

vaccine injury compensation system and a national adverse event

reporting system.

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Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA

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