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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am so frustrated when people who are pro-vaccine and denigrate people who delay immunizations as anti-science are also using dramatic, non-factual language.

It's fine to have different opinons, but when someone tells me that vaccines are 100% safe, with no chance of side effects and that all the vaccine preventable diseases had been eradicated it really doesn't do a lot to convince me. The exemptions in most states have been around since the 60's, so parents making new decisions is not something that occurred solely in the last decade. Plenty of parents questioned the safety of vaccines well, well before Andrew Wakefield.

Measles and pertussis behave in completely different ways, and cannot be controlled in the same way. Whooping cough has NEVER been eradicated in this country, and in fact there is a possibility it is changing its genetic structure:  http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/pertussis-evolving/
Fully vaccinated individuals can carry pertussis with no clinical signs, and the vaccine is &lt;80% effective (and that is generous).

Also only Measles is primarily dangerous to children. Rubella and mumps are hazardous to pregnant women and teenage/adult men. The MMR is coming under fire for perhaps not protecting against mumps as well as advertised: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/lawrence-solomon/merck-whistleblowers_b_5881914.html

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Sorry, OP, you are anti-science.

The proof of this is all the inaccuracies in your post. No one ever said vaccines are 100% safe. No one ever said they didn't have side effects. No one ever said vaccine-preventable illnesses have been eradicated (though we'd be a whole lot closer if people got their kids vaccinated). Just because the measles and pertussis vaccines are given in the same shot doesn't mean they are the same vaccine, they are combined. No vaccine is 100% effective, but 80% is very high and the effectiveness of the measles vaccine is even higher.

And none of this makes any sense. If you only give your child treatments that are 100% effective with no side effects, ever, then you never give your child any medication of any kind.

I realize people like you are feeling defensive because of the shaming going on but really you should be shamed. Your ignorance shows through. Do you know how many children died of measles before vaccines? How many suffered permanent brain damage? But that sort of rational argument holds no weight with you because while you scream about needing facts, you discard them one by one as not good enough. No facts will ever be good enough for you. Stay away from em and my family.[/quote]

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