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• Referral from December 4, 2013
  

  Stuart W. asked:

  Is your childs life worth someone else's crazy theories? My Pediatricians office will not see unvaccinated children. If you have young children, I would recommend speaking to your pediatrician and requesting they do the same. If a parent holds to some belief that endangers their own children, thats one thing. When they want to endanger the rest of us, thats quite another.

  

  Talia D. replied:

  Vaccines are among the most effective public health interventions against infectious diseases and prevent thousands of deaths in the U.S. Each year/widespread epidemics, as you have pointed out. Not to mention the fact that some diseases have virtually been wiped off the planet by the advent of vaccines. This is proven beyond a shadow of a doubt, by what is called "evidence based medicine" I.e. The scientific method. This means the most rigorous protocols including long term follow up studies proving the safety of vaccines. What's next, parents refusing newborn screening for genetic diseases that are preventable by merely changing diet or other early intervention? Parents refusing to get their sons and daughters the gardasil vaccine that can actually prevent cancer? We may eventually see more vaccines against certain cancers and other deadly diseases, hopefully, I'll be first in line. Instead we get crazies out there, claiming their child got autism from a vaccine. Lay people hear this and panic spreads, even though this is scientifically disproven and the most idiotic thing I've heard of. But some parents are not only angry their child is autistic, they are mad at the medical establishment for not having the answers as to why. (We'll get there... At least the genetic causes) What we need are better methods of educating uninformed and concerned parents, addressing fears that may be completely unfounded. Thank god for people like Jonas Salk. Www.cdc.org and www.vaccines.gov are sites where people can read the benefits of vaccines, and answer the questions they have. There is a wide body of medical literature studying this "trend" of vaccine skepticism. Too much money and time spent, that should be diverted to develop new vaccines!! Stu don't even get me started

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