Re: parenting article/vaccine questions

[Guest guest]

I don't know on #1 but yes, #2 is right.. the germ enters through the first

defense: the skin and the mucous membrane so the immune system has a chance

to get an alert. When injected directly into the blood stream, the immune

system doesn't get a red flag and the first 2 lines have been by-passed.

Which, imo, is partially why the vaccine fails too b/c the body takes longer

to recognize the enemy.. the defenses are down, so to speak. At least, from

what I gather.

If I had the chance I'd ask mr. offit why I should go on his recommendations

for damaging my child when he has a vested interest in my child getting the

vaccine. He is not impartial.

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I would ask where the 1 in a 1,000 children were from--third world country,

Chicago, Iceland, Bali?? Are they averaging out everyone throughout the world?

What was the health of these children? How many actually died and how many

actually were brain damaged, and to what degree? And when were the statistics

taken? Who gathered them? Make them defend their statistics.

For those of us who believe the MMR causes autism, why isn't that 1 in 150

scarier? Let's focus on eliminating that first since it's a bigger problem than

these supposed measles victims.

As for #2, I would say, so what? Who cares how many are in either? What has the

comparison got to do with anything? Vaccines are dangerous whether they have one

or 150 immunological components, and they have a whole lot more putrid things in

them than that. I would add that every vaccine carries the risk of death and

what about that?

Winnie

parenting article/vaccine questions

Vaccinations

> I just read an article and need some rebuttal help with a few

> things posed in the article about

> how safe vaccines are.

>

> 1. They quoted that 1 in 1,000 children who gets measles dies or

> has brain damage. That

> seems really high to me.

>

> 2. They had the whole Offit argument in there that every

> bacteria contains 2000-3000

> immunological components, and that all the vaccines combined

> only have 150.

> But aren't they worse because they are injected directly rather

> than taken in through the

> mouth and nose?

>

> Thanks,

> Melinda C.

>

>

[Guest guest]

Thanks for the thoughts!

Melinda C.