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To: trapped_in_LA

Then you have FAILED and I repeat again FAILed in your ability to read data and analyze it. To tell me of an anecdotal case that is personal and based on emotion and NOT science shows a lack of intellectual honesty


19 posted on 03/24/2014 10:19:15 AM PDT by Nifster
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To: Nifster

“The experience with pertussis in the 1970s was also based on anecdotal case reports linking pertussis vaccination with infant brain damage.9 Again a temporal link between a vaccine and a devastating childhood condition whose natural peak onset was at the very time when most children received that vaccine was misinterpreted as a causal relation. A national study eventually showed that, while there was a temporal association with encephalopathy, any risk of lasting damage was so rare as to be unquantifiable.10 But the initial report, then as now, attracted media attention; parental and professional anxiety soared; and national immunisation rates fell from 80% to 30%. The number of susceptible children rose, and in the 12 years after 1976 three major pertussis epidemics accounted nationally for over 300000 notifications and at least 70 deaths. The suffering of families experiencing long miserable illnesses was considerable, and in some cases long term damage ensued. Some parents came to believe that an immunisation they had approved had damaged their child.

Here is the citation location “http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1112717/";

I remember when the anti vaccine folks in Britain convinced people to not take the pertussis vaccine.... the cases were devastating.

You would not allow someone to tell you they can generate electricity out of nothing why or why will you allow yourself to be fed nonsense and conclude that it is true?


25 posted on 03/24/2014 10:36:47 AM PDT by Nifster
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