Getting vaccination into perspective (7 May 2012)
A blogger points out very cogently, courtesy of a number of health experts specialising in the history of vaccinations, that while no one disputes that a very small number of measles cases can have horrendous outcomes, it is a fact that, for the vast majority, catching measles ‘was no big deal and that anyone catching the measles got lifetime immunity as a result’. Moreover, ’95% of the people who used to die from measles stopped dying before the vaccine was introduced in 1968′. Figures quoted by other authors also show that ‘infectious diseases rose dramatically after the introduction of vaccinations’ and ‘that hygiene and living conditions played a significant role in the relative disappearance of cholera and the black plague and that there is no vaccine for either of these diseases’.