50% + of parents are worried about vaccine reactions - NVIC blog repost

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http://avn.org.au/nocompulsoryvaccination/?p=505Back to the Future: Parental Concerns About Vaccine Safety

This posting came via the One Click Group – an excellent resource to bookmark:The results of a 2009 survey evaluating the vaccine safety concerns

of American parents was recently published in the journal Pediatrics.

Out of the approximately 1500 parents, who took the survey, only 23

percent believe that vaccines cause autism in healthy children. But

more than half were worried about serious adverse health effects of

vaccination.One Third Want Right to Refuse VaccinesThe vast majority said they believe that getting vaccines is a good

way to protect children from disease and follow their doctor s

recommendations. Still, more than 30 percent of those surveyed believe

that parents should have the right to refuse vaccines that are required

for school for any reason.Defensive Doctors Losing Parents’ TrustI am not surprised by these survey results because, since 1982, most

parents contacting the National Vaccine Information Center tell us they

want to trust what their doctors tell them about vaccination. Mothers

and fathers depend upon their doctors to give them good advice; but

when the health of their child or a child they know deteriorates after

vaccination, parents logically start to ask questions. And when they

are belittled or even threatened for asking those questions, the

relationship between doctor and parent is never the same again.Three Decades of Parental Concerns About Vaccine SafetyParents asking questions about vaccine safety is nothing new.

Although in the past decade there has been a focus on whether a mercury

preservative in vaccines, perhaps in combination with the MMR vaccine,

can cause autism in some children, the public conversation about

vaccine risks and flaws in vaccine science and policy began in the

early 1980 s. Back then, it was parents of DPT vaccine injured children

calling for a less toxic whooping cough vaccine to replace an old one

causing brain inflammation, brain damage and death…. Click here to read more, watch and video and access live links to references for this commentary.Support Veteran Vaccine Information OrganizationsDuring the past three decades, NVIC has worked with non-profit

advocacy organizations in the U.S. and around the world that have

raised public awareness about health and vaccination and are defending

informed, voluntary vaccine decision making. On the NVIC.org

Resource page we include a list of international and U.S. state

grassroots vaccine information and choice advocacy organizations.Several deserve special mention at this time, including:Canada s Vaccination Risk Awareness Network (VRAN),

founded in 1982 by Edda West. VRAN was founded by parents in Canada at

the same time as NVIC was founded by parents in the U.S. and both VRAN

and NVIC were responsible for defining and framing the vaccine safety

and informed consent issue in North America.The Australian Vaccination Network (AVN)

founded in 1993 in Australia by Meryl Dorey also publishes Living

Wisdom Magazine. Meryl and the parents at AVN have been at the

forefront of communicating information about vaccine risks and the need

for parents to be able to make voluntary health choices for their

children.Vaccination News

founded by Sandy (Mintz) Gottstein in 2002 is a subscription online

vaccine information news service that highlights news about vaccination

from many different sources. Sandy is a Mom who has been a vaccine

safety and choice advocate for more than 20 years.The One Click Group

founded in 2003 in the United Kingdom by Jane . Jane is the

mother of a son, whose health was severely compromised by vaccination.

The online News on One Click newsletter is one of the largest

international sources of online information on vaccination and other

health issues.Parents around the world should get involved and actively support

parent-led vaccine information advocacy organizations working to

preserve informed, voluntary vaccine decision making.email: news@...

voice: 703-938-dpt3

web: http://www.nvic.org

NVIC E-News is a free service of the National Vaccine Information Center and is supported through membership donations.NVIC is funded through the financial support of its members and does

not receive any government subsidies. Barbara Loe Fisher, President and

Co- founder.Learn more about vaccines, diseases and how to protect your informed consent rights at http://www.nvic.orgNational Vaccine Information Center | 204 Mill St. | Suite B1 | Vienna | VA | 22180

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