vaccinations

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I started worrying about vaccinations when my best friend at the time

my 1st daughter was an infant was a wheelchair bound young woman with

polio aquired through immunization. Polio has been eradicated too

except for the only known cases now aquired through the vaccine.At

that time I switched pediatricians for my daughter due to insurance

changing and then we moved so she had 3 different docs. Well, I

discovered that she accidentally recieved double the dosage of polio

vaccination and it has bugged me ever since. Now my 2 yr old recieved

the hepatitis vaccine at the hospital when he was days old,

immediately afterward it was recalled for unsafe levels of mercury

used as preservative, as it is in other vaccines as well. I can't

help but question safety issues related to vaccines because I think

parents ultimately have their individual child's best interests at

heart, while the drug comapnies, epidemiologists, and researchers and

doctors have some other motivating factors as well, whether profit,

willingness to risk some severe effects in some individuals for the

sake of healthy society in general, and pressure to toe the line as

established by the medical community etc. Generally I believe that

vaccinations have done great good but there are unanswered

questionsthat raise concerns. Unfortunately, we can't know whether

vaccines or some other factor could have induced brain damage in

small children in the cases where parents noticed differences after

severe reactions. It could be coincidental, that a virus or a genetic

condition caused the brain damage or seizures or autism etc. It is

just hard to know for sure. But the fact that there are questions

would warrant further study and measures such as breaking the

vaccines into separate injections and postponing them when there are

signs of illness, previous severe reactions, or severe reactions in

siblings. I am trying to take the happy medium approach I guess.