For what it's worth, and I expect to get flamed or whatever for this, I am very very reluctant to advise anyone to get their child vaccinated. I have a very strong conviction that anything that a company produces that is a) protected by the government from being held accountable for the impact it has and b) is extremely profitable for companies to produce and 3) has as far as I can see got very little current research being done on the efficacy or the long term side effects on either the vaccines alone OR the combination thereof is something to be extremely wary about.
I fail to see the wisdom of injecting aluminum, glyphosate ( now being used to replace mercury, which is still occassionally used) into very young children.I fail to see the urgency of now injecting children with some incredible number of vaccinations -in my day I believe we had 5, now it's in the hundreds, and somehow the population kept growing in spite of our lack of vaccinations. The original inspiration, that milkmaids never got smallpox was very different, the milkmaids were not getting the pox vaccine injected into their bloodstream, mixed with material known to be toxic to people. The severity of the disease is also of a different order of magnitude than that of measles, for instance.
Admittedly I am prejudiced, since I dutifully got my son vaccinated until a friend's healthy active child very nearly died after getting a dose of live vs killed vaccine, after which none of my kids got vaccinated for anything and they are all obnoxiously healthy. My son got measles, he got over it, like a minor case of the flu with spots.
There is actually a growing body of research suggesting that the sort of article above is the same sort of thing that was done around tobacco being good for you. A couple of links
http://www.greenmedi...vaccination-all to research and a blog from the same place regarding this question:
http://www.greenmedi...stem-against-us
Anyone who wants to can wade through all those research articles.
One stat I found interesting though I don't remember where I read it is that the US vaccinates more than virtually any other country, but the incidence of illness is not lower. At all. In fact in health care the US is somewhere down around 17th in the world. If more vaccinations is the answer then why should that be so? And why are ads for flu vaccines saying things like, "most children who got the flu last year were not vaccinated." Most? why only MOST ? was the vaccine actually doing not anything at all and it was just random who got it and who didn't? Does anyone even know?
Aluminum, for instance, is generally accepted as being toxic to people, it's why it's used as a carrier. For those medical people here, just how much aluminum is safe for humans to have injected into them before it has a negative affect? Does anyone even know, percentage of body weight? How much of the reaction is to the carrier, aluminum or whatever, and how much to the actual vaccine? And is there a long term effect on combining a bunch of vaccines to be given at once, as there are sometimes interactions if certain drugs or even herbal concoctions are used?
Then there is the question of retroviruses which I admittedly don't really understand.But they are now acknowledged to be probably? possibly? there,they are potentially scary, and nobody much is talking about them, certainly not the pro vaccination people.
Bottom line for me though, is if the companies producing these things cannot be held accountable, then I'm not letting them inject it into my child's body. I wouldn't even buy a new coffeepot without expecting some sort of warranty, I get it home and it doesn't work, I am going to get my money back. If there is some sort of flaw in it and it blows up and takes off half my face, or burns down the house, then someone is going to be held accountable for putting out a defective product.
Why should less accountability be accepted for stuff we are injecting into immature immune systems, even babies? Money in that case is not the point, it is possibly a blighted life, as in the case of my friend's daughter, who had some ongoing issues even after she finally got out of hospital.