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...born in 1953 and I got my polio shots when I was age 4, and I am thankful as there were still cases of the disease in Europe at that time. But I am against giving babies vaccines against everything. I've had measles, whooping cough, rubella and chicken pox. I survived them all. Vaccinations should be kept to the minimum, so that the body can respond to ailments in the natural way. Roberta Fischer Malara, VARESE, ITALY...
Many states already require that people working in hospitals be immunized against measles, mumps and rubella, for example, and an influenza-vaccine mandate shouldn't be seen as any different from these standards. Yet when it comes to the flu shot, those in the medical field are notoriously incompliant: nationwide, only half of them voluntarily roll up their sleeves each year. "That just doesn't deliver the safe immunity level we need in a hospital," says Dr. Richard Daines, commissioner of health for New York State. It doesn't make sense, he says, for health-care workers...
...England, where there is widespread suspicion that the childhood vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella has led to an explosion in autism cases, the study was hailed as part of a growing body of evidence that the vaccine, which was introduced in the 1988, is not to blame...
...cited example is concern over an autism link with the [measles, mumps and rubella] vaccine," Pennington says. "In America, high uptake of the vaccine led to the eradication of measles. But in Europe, enough parents refused to let their children have the vaccine that it gave the virus a home to circulate and continue to infect people." (Take TIME's swine flu quiz...
...autistic children were not entitled to compensation from the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Fund. The ruling was in response to three cases, each of which involved parents who claimed that their children’s autism was brought on by the measles vaccine in the measles, mumps, and rubella immunization most children receive, or by the combination of the measles vaccine and thimerosal. Although we sympathize with parents of autistic children, we appreciate the court’s decision and hope that it will cause parents who are considering not immunizing their children to think twice. There is currently...