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In reply to the discussion: Jenny McCarthy does a major CYA... [View all]Mondavi
(176 posts)but the vaccine has created an epidemic of shingles which is a more serious condition.
Plus, if we were talking about any other corporations other than the drug industry, there would be skepticism and rightly so. Because our government is heavily involved in sponsoring and pushing vaccines, the issue gets a protective veneer. Yet, we've seen also that our government agencies have been completely corrupted by corporate influence/money and that is also true of those agencies which allegedly regulate the drug industry.
Further, there are tremendous exaggerations about these childhood diseases. Chicken pox is not the first childhood disease where there was no call for a vaccine.
Here's a link to an article up at Common Dreams now showing dire concerns about a new uprising of polio. Yet, if you follow down to the comments you will see that the public isn't necessarily buying what the government and drug companies are saying. That's true for many reasons, including the past history (as confirmed by Salk) where the very first polio injections were contaminated: (http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/08-9)
we who got those first Salk injections were also KNOWINGLY contaminated with the cancerous SV40 (simian virus), Dr. Salk later admitted this on the record....
and from another poster:-
I'm always cautious of those who push vaccines. Gates comes to mind.
http://nsnbc.me/2013/05/08/bil...
http://www.nvic.org/vaccines-a...
http://www.nvic.org/nvic-vacci...
http://childhealthsafety.wordp...
http://www.mamaeve.com/caring-...
http://www.naturalnews.com/031...
http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/p...
Generally, the cause of disease is poor living conditions, sanitation, health care.
When government works to improve those conditions we see less illness.
Additionally, the polio epidemic in the US was preceded by heavy use of DDT spraying.
What's working on this thread is simply more effort to push emotion over thought.
Dr. Wakefield recommended that there not be three vaccines administered at one time (MMR)
but rather that the measles vaccine be given singly. At that time in the UK the government had a single vaccine for measles. Parents chose the single vaccine, but after a few years the government discontinued the single vaccine and that is when parents in the UK began to reject the MMR vaccine.
You might also recall this:
Published on Friday, May 9, 2014 by Common Dreams
Pakistan: CIA's Fake Vaccination Ploy to Hunt Bin Laden Sparked Polio Epidemic
Foreign Ministry spokesperson says CIA's 2011 plot has sparked hostility to vaccination drives and hampered efforts to stem outbreak of highly infectious disease
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/09-5