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Childhood Vaccinations

August 8th, 2011

My daughters have not been vaccinated, ever, against anything. If anyone would like to know my reasons, I’ll be happy to provide them via email. There will be numerous links throughout this article to help you arrive at your own conclusions about standard childhood vaccinations. In all likelihood, most of our readers have had or plan to have their children vaccinated. This article is not meant as an attack on your judgment or an attempt to make you feel guilty over your choices. I am presenting this information out of concern and regard for all our children.

While infant and childhood vaccinations remain a rite of passage for babies born in the United States and most other countries, there is a growing trend by concerned parents of questioning this practice. Unfortunately, there is very little support for these parents in the traditional medical community. While you, as parents, will be told that it is mandatory to vaccinate your babies and even accused of child abuse in some instances if you do NOT vaccinate your infant, I feel it is of vital importance that you know the facts and truth about various vaccinations routinely administered to your children, the actual legality of not vaccinating if you so choose and the opportunity to make your own informed choices.

There is a dramatic increase in many countries of childhood autism, leukemia, diabetes, lupus, multiple sclerosis and other immune deficiency and muscular diseases, as well as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. It is the belief of many that some of the children and adults affected by these ravages on the body are so-attacked as a result of having been vaccinated as infants and children against a host of potential diseases, such as polio, measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox, hepatitis B, tetanus, etc. » Read more: Childhood Vaccinations

To Vaccinate Or Not to Vaccinate

August 3rd, 2011

Almost everyone agrees that vaccination has been one of the single most effective public health measures ever undertaken however it still remains one of the most controversial issues facing medicine today. We will take a look at these controversies, attempting to dispel truly fallacious information and focusing on real issues of concern to families.

Once the efficacy of vaccines became established, governments rushed to both make vaccines available to the populace and to make vaccination compulsory in many cases. In the twentieth century, as immunizations for childhood diseases were developed, including diphtheria, measles, mumps and rubella, vaccination became required for public school attendance.

In 1974, the WHO launched the Expanded Programme on Immunization. Through their efforts the last naturally occurring case of smallpox in the world occurred in Somalia in 1977.

Governmental entities strive to immunize as many people as possible in order to reach herd immunity. Herd immunity takes place when enough people are vaccinated to substantially lower the likelihood that a susceptible person will come into contact with an infected person.

Unfortunately, while the discovery of vaccines has probably been one of the single most important steps in eradicating disease (along with sanitation and antibiotics), there have been and continue to be safety issues associated with vaccine administration. » Read more: To Vaccinate Or Not to Vaccinate