some vaccines benefits may outway the dangerous of not being vaccinated......
but the government does go out of its way to push ceratain vaccines that are not necassary in all infants, example; hepatitis B
Hepatitis B is a viral disease transmitted through blood and body fluids. In its acute phase it can cause liver failure and death. It can also become chronic, causing liver damage, including cancer, over a number of years.
Except for infants born to mothers with this infection, children are not at great risk of developing hepatitis B, but health-care workers, homosexuals, and intravenous drug users are. Attempts to vaccinate adults have been largely unsuccessful, however. It's easier to reach children because school enrollment requires immunization.
Therefore, for lifelong protection, CDC has recommended that all infants be vaccinated before 15 months of age in three doses. There are no serious reactions to the vaccine.
In the 2nd paragraph it states that infants are not at risk, then why are they getting vaccinated????? With 3 doses before 15 months of age???? Why cant they get the vaccine when they are older????
To me this does not make sense....
also, just because you are vaccinated does not mean you will not get the disease; I was vaccinated against measles and then got measles at age 24!! !
also, I am immune to chicken pox- I never got the vacine ( there was no such thing when I was a kid)
I think that you should have your childs titers checked before you vaccinate- to make sure they need the vacine....
also, you need to make this choice on your own research and beleifs...
My pediatrican has been behind my choice- but I have heard of parents getting kicked out of ped's offices for not vaccinating their kids- why???
Kick backs to doctors from the manufactor's and government????
Michele
just my opinion.
oh, also if some diseases have been eradicated then why do we still vaccinate against them???? see below:
Today, vaccines have totally or nearly eradicated several diseases such as smallpox, polio, diphtheria, and Hib infections, according to the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.