Why We Immunize

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Why We Immunize
Posted by Jim Macdonald at 01:09 AM * 247 comments

There’s a manual that every Navy gunnery officer was required to read or re-read every year: OP 1014; Ordnance Safety Precautions: Their Origin and Necessity. It’s a collection of stories about, and photographs of, spectacular accidents involving big guns and ammunition. Gun turrets that have fired on other gun turrets on the same ship. Holes in the coral where ammunition ships were formerly anchored. That sort of thing. It’s simultaneously grim and fascinating.

Nowadays there’s some kind of movement afoot for claiming that immunization against common childhood diseases is unnecessary. That they cause disease. That they’re harmful. It is true that rare adverse reactions to immunizations occur. It is also true that adverse reactions to the diseases themselves are not at all rare if you don’t immunize. So let’s call this post Immunizations: Their Origin and Necessity.

Still, we have people fighting against immunizations. Observe:

Product:
Kids Vaccinations in general
…
Advantages: none

Disadvantages: enormous

I suppose that depends on whether you feel “Didn’t have to buy a teeny-tiny headstone” is an advantage.

Article here: http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/010978.html