Childhood Vaccinations – Necessary or Overkill?

From this article or March 2006: WHO

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Global deaths due to measles fell by 48%, from 871 000 in 1999 to an estimated 454 000 in 2004, thanks to major national immunization activities and better access to routine childhood immunization, the agencies said. These measles mortality data, calculated by WHO, are the latest available.

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Measles doesn't seem that harmless to me.Admittedly, measles rates were highest in Africa as you mentioned but the infection and death rates decreased the most in that continent (60% according to the article). Do you think the general nutrition and sanitation increased greatly for 60% of the poor in that 5 years or could it actually be due to the increased vaccination rate among the population? And the general sub-Saharan Africa population accomplishes this in what way? Lets try This article

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Whooping cough is re-emerging nationwide and youngsters in states that permit parents to easily opt out of vaccinating their children are at increased risk from the disease,...

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I guess that study is going on as we speak. Unless you are able to show that those particular states have poorer nutrition levels for their populace or that parents who opt out of vaccinations tend to undernourish their children, I think we can rule out varying nutrition levels as having a profound effect on this particular study.How about here in a single town in Indiana. Note that almost all of those infected were unvaccinated.Of course you are saying that the disease would not cause death if the nutrition of the patient is good. However, you can't rule out that these patients survived because there were good hospitals and doctors around. But what if none of the people in that little Indiana town had been vaccinated. Now how would the medical establishment deal with more than 30% of the population having measles? It is likely that some of those would be health care professionals. As I am sure you have heard before, this is risk verses benefit problem. Risks to individual and population health are higher if people are unvaccinated than they are if vaccinated. This assessment is supported by numerous studies. Although citing these studies does little to console an individual parent who's child is adversely affected by a vaccination, it is still a good arguing point in support of continuing mandatory vaccinations for children attending public school.

Why I believe the choice should not exist is because a parent choosing to avoid vaccinations for their child puts my children at risk too. Some vaccinations cannot be given before a certain age so my child who is too young to get vaccinated can be exposed to their children who should have been. However, those parents would rather listen to scare tactics from people on the internet who want to sell a book or a "natural remedy". Can you say Kevin Trudeau is a bullshit artist? I knew that you could! OhhhKayyy? Are you saying that because there is another disease with the same or similar symptoms that we should not vaccinate against a disease that we know we can prevent?I am confused at the inclusion of this statement as support for anything that we have been discussing. The report on the Indiana town stated that 32% of the unvaccinated students that first came in contact with patient zero were infected that day. More people were stricken as secondary and tertiary infections so the 30% was rather conservative and warranted based on the wider range of uncertainty when dealing with a sample group that small. Molbiogirl also showed you stats on pre-vaccination measles infection spread.I guess we could just suspend vaccinations completely and let evolution take over in that area. We would wind up with a stronger more disease resistant human race. The cost in human lives seems a little high to me especially since most would be children. However, it could be used as a means of population control.
Better yet, the government could just make all vaccinations voluntary. That way the gullibility gene could be minimized in the American population.Edited by LinearAq, : Fixed the last sentence to be less ambiguous.

I read the list of ingredients.How about mine:
1. Had any biscuits lately? Baking Powder...Sodium Aluminum Sulphate NaAl(SO4)2, Cream of tartar KHC4H4O6, Baking Soda NaHCO3...watch out for that Aluminum and that Potassium.2. Take multivitamines? Aluminum, Potassium, Copper, Selenium, Chromium, Molybdenum, Iodine and othersLet's not forget Dihydro Oxide that has been shown to cause hundreds of deaths a year in the US yet remains completely unregulated as to the amount that can be put into your food.