Safety of Childhood Vaccination Schedule Still Unproven
Recently, an article by Joanna Nix was published in Mother Jones magazine titled “There is a Whole Cottage Industry of Doctors Helping Parents Skip Their Kids’ Vaccines”. The aim of the piece appears to be to attack and try to discredit physicians who exercise professional judgment and provide medical vaccine exemptions for children they conclude may be at increased risk for harm…
Why is Informed Consent to Vaccination a Human Right?
Civil liberties. They include the legal right to exercise freedom of thought, speech, conscience, and religious belief. Autonomy. Protection of autonomy and bodily integrity includes the human right to exercise informed consent to medical risk taking. What is informed consent? Informed consent means you have the legal right to be fully and accurately informed about […]
Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness a ‘Dismal 10 Percent’
On Feb. 26, 2015, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated the effectiveness of the vaccine against the predominant influenza A H3N2 viruses for the 2014-2015 season at 18 percent—a level reportedly described by CDC researchers as having “little to no efficacy.”
Dengvaxia Vaccine May Lead to More Cases of Dengue
Sanofi Pasteur announced that its dengue vaccine, Dengvaxia, may lead to more severe cases of dengue fever in some people—a warning it relayed after the vaccine was already administered to more than 700,000 children in the Philippines. Those at risk, according to Sanofi, are people…
Sudden Infant Deaths Remain High in the U.S.
A recent report by WTVM television of Columbus, GA claimed, “Three to four babies a week are dying in Georgia due to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) or other sleep related causes.” In 2015, there were 170 sleep-related infant deaths in Georgia alone, up from previous years.
Beware of Applying Numbing Creams Before Vaccination
Numbing creams that contain lidocaine and prilocaine can also lead to irregular heartbeat, difficulty breathing, seizures, and coma and death. In 2012, the University of Toronto in Canada conducted a survey of 1,204 children and 883 parents and found that the fear of needles was a factor in discouraging some from getting vaccinated.