: Vaccination Curse or cure?

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Suzanna,

I skimmed the article and will read it in detail later and try to give better comments. My point about being rural was that we were much less exposed to other people that more metropolitan folk. A quick consult with the local library documented that our county population in 1950 was 11, 000 and by 1954 we had documented 33 cases of polio. I talked to an aunt who is 62 (My mom's baby sister) and we thought of who we knew that had polio in and around our little town. She and I could think of only 9 cases. 5 lived in town, 4 were rural residents. 2 of her high school class mates had it (1964) and at least one each year prior back back to 1955. There were about 70 in her class. I know many folks do not remember Carson, I first read 'Silent Spring" in 1972, majored in agrononmy in college, and work for an environmentally oriented state agency. I have been on this track a long time. Have been hospitalized with ag chemical posioning twice. Today I

use as little as possible and approach pest control from a very different stand point. When I took Genetics in 2002, our professor said that in order for an organism to aquire a disease or condition, you need 1) genetic suceptability, 2) exposure to a contagin and 3) insuggicient imune system response. That across the spectrum of the three required items there is a huge variability in any given population, therefore, not every "exposed" individual get the condition. This could explain in part why two who were exposed to the same things do not get sick.

It is very distrubing to me that many who believe vaccinations to be bad, discount germ theory, when the single largest cause of death in the 1700-1800s was poor sanitation in hospitals and in the west, where women began to deliver in hospitals, death rate from "Child bed fever" (dirty doctors) was about 40%, higher in some inner city hospitals.

Lastly, for now, I wonder how many have died or had their quality of life reduced by malaria, when a minscule amount of DDT could have stopped those misquitos?

Very thoughtfully,

BIll Dunlap