Re: Vaccinations: Where do I begin?

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At 3:06 PM +0000 6/2/05, wrote:

>Message: 5

> Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 22:18:27 -0000

> From: " laurainnewjersey " <laurabusse@...>

>Subject: Re: Vaccinations: Where do I begin?

>

>

> > Even more worrisome is that it has been suggested that getting

>childhood

>> diseases is important for proper development of the immune system

>so that

>> they are less likely to develop cancer and other serious diseases

>later on.

>> Of course in the absence of good studies it is hard to know.

>>

>> Irene

>

>Hi Irene,

>

>very interesting what you said; i've heard a physician (all natural

>type) say that on the radio; that the immune system, like other

>systems in the body, needs to be exercised or it doesn't work

>properly. so if you're always giving it vaccinations and

>antibiotics, your immune system won't learn to work properly on its

>own.

>

>very interesting.

>

>laura

OTOH, it could be said that vaccination provides a controlled

exercise of the immune system, giving it dead bacteria to fight so it

will be ready to fight the live ones.

I find it pretty bizarre that some people here have been arguing that

vaccination doesn't work. Whatever else one says about modern

medicine, it's empirically based. People have been vaccinating for a

couple centuries now (if you count the cowpox/smallpox thing), and I

don't think we'd be throwing millions into vaccine research if

vaccinations didn't work. One can argue about whether that " work "

creates other problems, or whether there's a problem with vaccine

preservatives, or the proper age to vaccinate. we might not being

doing things the best possible way. But to the anti-vaccine folks I

say: when's the last time you saw a case of polio?

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