Guest guest Posted August 23, 2001 Report Share Posted August 23, 2001 http://www.northnz.co.nz/letters.htm Who helps? When someone gets a dreadful disease like diphtheria, measles etc., doctors try and at least help. When someone has an adverse reaction to a vaccine, where is the help? Everyone tries to cover it up. I know from personal experience. Very Disgusted Canada ------------------------------------ No need to die People with preventable diseases always make me sad. Particularly children. They didn¹t need to get sick. Recently we had two young children in ICU at Whangarei Hospital. Both children needed tubes down their throats to breath and both were at death¹s door. One had tetanus and the other had Hib epiglottitis. Both were also unvaccinated. Vaccine-preventable diseases still kill people in Northland. For example a 48-year-old unvaccinated Whangarei man died shortly after catching hepatitis B in March this year. A 28-year-old unvaccinated Whangarei mother died from the same disease in 1996. It is estimated that there are 1,500 hepatitis B carriers in Northland and two to three Northlanders die each year from chronic hepatitis B. In the last ten years I have seen dramatic changes in some of these vaccine-preventable diseases in Northland. We got rid of hepatitis A through a vaccine campaign in 1998. Only unvaccinated people now catch life threatening diseases like tetanus, Hib or hepatitis B in Northland. After seeing what these diseases can do, I have no doubt at all about the value of vaccination. Talk to your doctor or nurse if you require more information. Jarman Medical Officer of Health Northland Health --------------------------------------- Please feel free to write to the editor, Northland Age, New Zealand editor@... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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