[FLPERMACULTURE] Vaccines

[Margaret McCasland]

I think caution is needed about WHICH vaccines are mandatory, and what the
exceptions should be.  Aside from religious opposition, other reasons for
caution include people who are allergic to eggs (in many vaccines), the use
of mercury or who-knows-what-other potentially dangerous "inactive"
ingredients, and the dangers from poorly researched vaccines themselves.
I had a rubella (German measles) vaccine in 1974, the first year it came
out, because I worked with children and pregnant moms, and because my sister
and some of my friends had suffered because of rubella exposure in utero.
 But then that vaccine itself triggered a latent auto-immune condition in
me. But I wasn't the only person with a bad reaction and Merck pulled that
version from the market, and then changed their vaccine a couple more
times.

Point is, companies like Merck would LOVE to have lots of different
mandatory vaccinations.  BUT we need careful, unbiased discussion from a
true public health perspective (not a corporate wealth perspective), as well
as ways for appropriate individual exceptions.

Because of my family's genetic predisposition to damage from both rubella
AND from its vaccines, we have gotten cooperation from doctors so that my
kids only got vaccinations when they were extra healthy AND if their blood
tests showed no immunity.  That may not be possible with new legislation.

I am also concerned that cats have been given MANY new vaccinations over the
past 10-15 years, and are now coming down with all sorts of new cancers.  I
suspect the systemic flea medicines are more likely to be causing the new
cancers, but let's make sure vaccines aren't made mandatory until they are
proven to be safe (tho I'm not sure how to do that in an ethical way).

I was unwittingly part of Merck's first long-term rubella test (and I PAID
them to participate): their previous studies had lasted 6 weeks, and they
knew people had side effects that lasted at least that long when they made
the vaccine available "to the public."  BTW, the current vaccine is much,
much safer than what I had, and I recommend it for MOST people.

I get flu shots every year because I tolerate eggs, but my adult children do
not, since eggs are a problem for them.  We need to maintain options based
on accurate info, not scare campaigns from companies like Merck.

Margaret



On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Martha Beddoe <mebeddoe at rochester.rr.com>
wrote:

>  Many of us wouldn't be here without certain vaccines, and certain
> antibiotics, too (if no penicillin, I was a goner at 8).
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> That doesn't mean all vaccines are indispensible.  Nor does it mean
> antibiotics should be everywhere, as our culture is starting to understand.
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> I fail to see how meningitis and HPV equilibrate, and am grateful for the
> vaccine for the former, since most cases of contraction result in death.  I
> would very much not want to be required to subject myself to the latter,
> since HPV is present in the skin of most of the human population
> asymptomatically.
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> Martha
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> Our world is burning.  Do something.
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