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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is what I belive...people are free to make choices to do with their bodies what they wish. I tend to take choice seriously and don't belive government has the right or authority to impose laws or restrictions upon my body. As for the vaccine debate, please tell me how many American children DIE because of the choice not to vaccinate? Not many! in fact, most of the CDC research is focused on African children, people living in substandard conditions in a substandard country. As for the child with a compromised immune system, I feel bad but kniw that more children DIE in auto accidents than from any illness that a vaccine vaccinated against. [/quote]

UM, LOTS.

http://vec.chop.edu/service/parents-possessing-accessing-communicating-knowledge-about-vaccines/global-immunization/diseases-and-vaccines-a-world-view.html

If you don't care to look at the link, some of the highlights include: Around 70,000 deaths from whooping cough, 4,000 from HPV and 5,000 from Hep B.

If we all don't vaccinate, you can imagine extrapolating from something like this:

More than 15,000 Americans died from diphtheria in 1921, before there was a vaccine. Only one case of diphtheria has been reported to CDC since 2004.

An epidemic of rubella (German measles) in 1964-65 infected 12½ million Americans, killed 2,000 babies, and caused 11,000 miscarriages. In 2012, 9 cases of rubella were reported to CDC.

Right now, many do not because we, the responsible parents, do vaccinate. [/quote]

Not even counting Polio! In 1952, as larger and larger outbreaks had been spreading across the US, there were 58,000 reported cases of polio, more than 3,000 of which resulted in deaths, and countless others crippled and paralyzed. If there were no vaccines, these diseases would most certainly be more deadly than cars. It is the vaccines that are holding them at bay![/quote]

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