SchaferAutismReport: Parents, Officials Struggle Over Right To Refuse Vaccines

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PUBLIC HEALTH

* Parents, Officials Struggle Over Right To Refuse Vaccines

TREATMENT

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* Center Focuses On Autism's Other Isolation

PEOPLE

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PUBLIC HEALTH

Parents, Officials Struggle Over Right To Refuse Vaccines

Editor's note: The mandatory vaccine controversy is being played out

in local papers across the US. This one is from Utah. -ed.

By Logan Molyneux - Daily Herald.

http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/243180/3/

Marie Hansen of Spanish Fork says something changed the day she took

her son Dylan to his 1-year-old doctor's appointment.

Until then, Dylan had been successfully overcoming developmental

problems caused by his low birth weight. But when he got his MMR and chicken

pox immunization shots, he started crying uncontrollably and stopped

breathing regularly. Doctors and nurses were eventually able to stabilize

him, but Hansen says she never learned exactly what happened. She assumes it

was a seizure, but all she really knows is that she soon realized something

was wrong.

" He just seemed really off the next week, " Hansen said. " He didn't

really run a fever or anything, he was just off. The best way I can describe

it is that he kind of lost the spark in his eye. I can show you pictures and

it's just night and day. "

Hansen is among a small but growing number of parents who choose not

to vaccinate their children, and according to the medical community,

consequently increase the population's risk of disease. Arguments against

vaccines include the idea that large pharmaceutical companies that

manufacture the vaccines are corrupt and lobby for vaccine laws just to make

money. There has also been increased interest in natural health and the idea

that you can be healthy without medicines. But the biggest complaint is that

vaccines are administered by force.

Laws in every state require school-aged children to receive a series

of vaccine shots. Because there is overwhelming medical evidence and opinion

stating that vaccines are not only safe but the greatest triumph of public

health in history, many who choose not to vaccinate do so quietly and don't

speak out about it for fear of being seen as a bad parent.

At 7 years old, Dylan is still non-verbal despite early intervention

programs and thousands of dollars in therapy. Hansen said she never noticed

any previous reaction to Dylan's or her other children's vaccinations. Dylan

probably would have experienced various delays no matter what, she said, but

she can't shake the idea that something changed that day. The experience

scared her so bad she says none of her children will receive another

vaccine, if she can help it.

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