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| Vaccination Concerns |
| Everywhere we are told to vaccinate our children. The schools require it, our doctors reccomend it, and our friends may be suprised if, or when, we don't. Only you are only hearing on side of the vaccination story. There's a darker side to it too. True vaccinations have saved lives. Thanks to the polio vaccine there are fewer cases of polio and parents do not panic and rush to the nearest doctor whenever a child comes down with muscle aches and fever. For most of the world, smallpox is also something there is no need to worry about. Our children in the United States aren't dying by the hundreds everyday. In fact, very few generations remember serious childhood illnesses. For my generation the only common childhood illness that was "serious" was the chickenpox. For my parents they had measles, mumps, and the like maladies. Now they have vaccines. How many diseases should we vaccinate our children against? How many children in the 60s and 70s and even maybe 80s died of the measles or mumps? Not to mention that chickenpox vaccine, do we really need that? I understand parents want to protect their children from as much discomfort as possiable but shouldn't the medical proffession put a stop to is somewhere. The fact is, the more vaccinations we make the more chances we are taking with worldwide health. Because as quickly as we are creating vaccines the viruses and bacterias that cause these illnesses are mutating to become resistant to our vaccines. Not only are we creating super strains of some diseases, but what are our current vaccines doing to our children? What about the fact that these vaccines are created using materials such as African green monkey tissue, chicken and guinea pig embryonic tissues, calf serum, and human diploid cells, or dissected organs of aborted human fetuses. Other harmful substances in vaccines are ethylene glycol, or antifreeze, phenol, or carbolic acid, fomaldehyde, aluminum, and thimersosal or mecury. There are reasons that these substances are used though, and in the end you must educate yourself and come to your own descions about vacinations. Aluminum is used to promote antibody repsonse, and side effects include cardiovasuclar effects and is linked to Althezimer's. Formaldehyde is used in other commerical products like pesticides, and materials or furnishings that contribute to indoor air pollution. In vaccines it is used to detoxify the toxins and a few of the possiable side effects are reproductive, respiratory, and skin or sense organ toxicant. Neomycin is used in some vaccines as an antibiotic and causes an allergic reaction in some people, you may want to check with your doctor if you are allergic. Streptomycin is also an antibiotic that causes allergic reactions in some people. Phenoxyethanol, or antifreeze, is used in vaccines as a preservative and some of the side effects can be liver, kideny, and reproductive toxican and neurotoxicant. Aside from hazardous substances found in the vaccines each vaccine that is made new is not really "safe." It is never sure if a vaccine is safe, even if it's been made from a formula that's been used for years, until some of that vaccine is used. Also, there are connections between certain vaccines and brain damage. Along with brain damage there is also a link to SIDs and other maladies. |