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Getting Past Vaccine Skepticism

There are several promising areas of  research. First, there's hope that researchers will come up with new vaccines against TB plus tropical diseases including leprosy.  Second, we're likely to see vaccines that work better in the elderly and ones that can be given to young infants.  Look for vaccines that can be given safely to pregnant women that will protect infants from neonatal infections like group B streptococcus. Expect more vaccines like the one against Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) that help prevent some forms of cancer.  And, there will probably be vaccines that help prevent insulin-dependent diabetes, arthritis and perhaps even Alzheimer's disease.  The potential benefit from vaccines against infectious diseases alone:  6.4 million fewer children dying and a total economic benefit of more than $230 billion over the next ten years.

Despite the promise, doubts linger.  Skepticism about the benefits and the safety of MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine has been particularly resistant to change even in the face of strong evidence to the contrary. You may remember hearing about Dr. Andrew Wakefield, the British doctor who made a fraudulent claim that MMR vaccine led to cases of autism.  The fraud was exposed earlier this year in an article in the British Medical Journal by journalist Brian Deer.   Even after Wakefield's claim was exposed as a fraud, there remain doubts that the minds of sceptics will be changed.  A significant percentage of people still believe  that vaccines do more harm than good.

According to the Larson's article in The Lancet (cited above), misinformation on vaccine safety is just one factor.  Perceived lack of safety is a big factor.  Concern often begins with a single published paper talking up a vaccine side effect.  What's fascinating is that such concerns aren't felt only in developed countries but can fuel distrust in developing countries that overwhelmingly stand to benefit from vaccines.  Factors that sustain public concern include media reports that amplify fears, previous bad experiences with vaccines that lower public trust, well-organized patient advocacy groups.  The Internet and social media sites can sustain rumours and incorrect information long after the public record has been corrected.  Public trust is also eroded when two or more public health agencies disagree with one another about the safety of a vaccine, as happened when French public health suspended the use of a Hepatitis vaccine that the WHO recommended.

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Has been duplicated several times over as listed in Dr. Sears The vaccine book and David Kirby’s book Evidence of Harm. Its old hat.

I think Dr. Wakefield is way before his time and if you look at his research he is saying that the MMR would be safer if broken up in 3 separate shots, which its no longer available in 3 seperate shots because that isn’t cost effective. The vaccine is live, live vaccines pose more problems as listed on vaers and the hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation site as do combo vax. He never said don’t get it, but I will, don’t get it. My sons 2 of them havent gotten it and they are above 12-18 months

I have heard Dr. Wakefield speak at a conference in 2003. He is possibly the most persecuted physician to date, and its completely biased. He is a gastroenterologist who noticed that when doing a scope of children with a history of LGS that the measles portion of the vaccine lodges in the bowel causing an increased permeability of constipation/diahrrea and that this population who develops LGS is more likely to be the autistic population. They are bot autoimmune in nature so I don’t see how that is such a leap of faith

I do agree that studies are too small of a sample pool and studies can be presented in ways in which the looks the way the tester is looking for. I would not base my decisions on one study either way.

The CDC does not recognize measles being on the rise, the disease waxes and wanes. Last year there were 135 cases, in recent years there have been 42. The MMR is a live vaccine meaning you can get measles from the vaccine, and its a combo vaccine. Statistically you are much better off not getting it and taking your chances of being 1 in 100 people who statistically annually get it in the US. 1 in 1000 have a serious reaction to measles. 40 percent of those that get measles have been vaccinated.

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1 in 6 vaccinated children are learning disabled from combo vaccines And if you look at the brain and nerve disorders they are a side effect from the vaccine: optic mylitis, encephalopathy, facial paralysis, guillain Barre syndrome….

And just look at the damage gardasil has done and its still on the market! All those girls that are paraplegic now

Emma that was supposed to be a thumbs down you have no idea what you are talking about. Encephalitis is a side effect from the vaccine, the vaccine isn’t effective 40 percent of the time, and the learning disabiliites, and there is nowhere that any reliable source says there is a measles epidemic the CDC doesn’t recognize it oh I guess you got that reliable info from the mother magazine HMMMM.

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