The virus that all four children are carrying is derived from the oral polio vaccine. That vaccine has not been used in the United States since 2000, in part because it causes paralysis in about one of every 13 million doses administered. American children now get an injected vaccine, which also prevents infection.
But these children would not have gotten the polio from anyone is they had proper vaccinations........like 98% of the children of that state.
Polio causes paralysis in 1 out of 200 people.........
O.K. my math is not that good, really it is not, but lets try, shall we.
1 in 13 million, lets just say there are 260 million people who have received the live polio vaccine.
That means if you have 20 people who were paralysized by Polio vaccine that would be amongst 260 million people.
But, they still withdrew the live polio and subsituted it with the "dead" vaccine. Even though out of 260 million people, 20 are affected.
They erred on the side of caution and withdrew it. So let me see they withdrew a vaccine that had a 1 in 13 million chance of causing a person paralysis, but before the vaccination you had a 1 in 200 chance of becoming paralysed by polio.
Vaccines have been in existance for 50 years......half a century........and you still think that the Government and "big pharmacy" is in some sort of conspiracy to "defraud" and "mislead" the public in to "buying" into vaccine's so they can make money.....
It is a public health issue, to protect people especially the most vulnerable of people, young children and babies.
Lets take Hep B for example:
Why does my baby need the hepatitis B vaccine? From babycenter.com
The hepatitis B vaccine protects your child against the
hepatitis B virus, which can lead to
liver damage and even death. Hepatitis B is generally considered to be an adult disease because it's known to be transmitted through unsafe sex and shared needles. But up to
40 percent of those who get it,
including children, don't engage in these "high-risk" behaviors and experts don't know how they got infected. Before the vaccine was introduced in the United States in 1982, there were about 25,000 cases a year in children younger than 5 years of age, and only 6,000 of them got it from their mother at birth.
Hepatitis B is highly infectious. About 1.25 million people in the United States currently have the virus, and 20 to 30 percent of them acquired the disease in childhood. Many of them never feel sick and don't know they have it,
but those who become infected as children are more likely to have long-term health problems, such as cirrhosis and liver cancer. There is no cure. Each year in the United States, about 300,000 people, mostly young adults, get infected with hepatitis B virus; more than 11,000 are hospitalized, and 4,000 to 5,000 people die.
What are the possible side effects or risks of an adverse reaction?
About 3 percent of children develop pain and tenderness at the site of the shot, and 1 percent have a low-grade fever. An estimated one in 600,000 children will have a serious allergic reaction involving swelling of the mouth, breathing difficulties, low blood pressure, hives, weakness, an increased heart rate, dizziness and shock. If your child has any of these symptoms (you'll know within a few hours), call 911 or take her to an emergency room.
In spite of
persistent rumors, there is as yet no evidence linking the hepatitis B vaccine to hair loss, SIDS, or autoimmune disorders such as multiple sclerosis. Several studies are currently underway to determine any possible association.
That means that if you have 1.2 million chance, 2 children may develop an allergic reaction.
But if a baby does not get immunized, there is no such thing as "no risk" to not get Hep B. Before the vaccine 19,000 children got Hep B from an unknown source. This will give them a life long chronic illness called HPV. This is a chronic illness from childhood on, leads to serious liver damage and HPV can be passed on to other unimmunized people. Or vice versa..........
So for a baby to get a Hep B shot, the parents are protecting him/her from possibly coming into contact with another person, child, baby with Hep B that could infect their child.
They would ruin their child's health for their life if they got HPV, but there is a chance like 2 out of 1.2 million that he/she may have an allergic reaction.
So get the shot, or take a "risk" with your child's current health, and lifelong future health and possible death from liver failure by not getting the shot.
The virus can live outside of the body for 7 days......and cannot be seen......but easily transmitted.
That is why countries mandate Hep B........at least my province.......
You, your family, friends, baby have a better chance at getting Hep B than a remote rare allergic reaction to a vaccine..........
MONO/EBV
By the way: A New vaccine is in the works and being tested to protect against EPV which is also known as Mono. Once a person gets Mono it will live inside the body for life..........and can reappear at any time.........
From: Nationalreviewofmedicine.com
"The major reason why such a vaccine would be important is that EBV infection carries a lifetime risk of developing EBV-infection-associated cancers such as African Burkitt's lymphoma, nasopharyngeal carcinoma, and some forms of Hodgkin's disease," says Dr Hal Jenson at the Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia.
Not only will the vaccine protect against EPV/Mono but also the lifetime risk of the associated cancers and reoccurance of the disease.
That is why this vaccine and others are so important to anyone's health......
