02-04-2016, 08:01 AM
Originally posted by Chunkster
It would instantly become your business if polio made a come-back in the USA or if typhoid, diphtheria, and whooping cough became endemic again.
For clarity, typhoid is not commonly vaccinated for in the US and was eliminated (as Kirt noted) through improved hygine and access to clean drinking water. The T in the common DTaP vaccine is for tetanus, which is the only non-contagious disease vaccine required for public school kids.
Despite the simplicities offered by the pro- and anti- vaccination camps, there are both benefits and risks for vaccinations. Consider the several hundred kids dealing with narcolepsy/cataplexy after receiving the 2009 swine flu vaccine in Europe. Weighing a permanent life-altering illness for "the few" kids against the possible risk for "the many" doesn't seem as clear cut as movie quotes make it out to be?
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/...on-dispute
It would instantly become your business if polio made a come-back in the USA or if typhoid, diphtheria, and whooping cough became endemic again.
For clarity, typhoid is not commonly vaccinated for in the US and was eliminated (as Kirt noted) through improved hygine and access to clean drinking water. The T in the common DTaP vaccine is for tetanus, which is the only non-contagious disease vaccine required for public school kids.
Despite the simplicities offered by the pro- and anti- vaccination camps, there are both benefits and risks for vaccinations. Consider the several hundred kids dealing with narcolepsy/cataplexy after receiving the 2009 swine flu vaccine in Europe. Weighing a permanent life-altering illness for "the few" kids against the possible risk for "the many" doesn't seem as clear cut as movie quotes make it out to be?
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/...on-dispute