Of course you support the HPV vaccine, you make tons of money off of the degenerative conditions that it has been clearly shown to cause.
Healthwise, all vaccines are a net loser. All are loaded with deadly “side effects” that are far more prevalent than the intended effect.
The personal attack on me and the more general attack on medicine is unwarranted - and you can’t document that it’s at all true.
The reason that our life expectancy climbed into the upper 60’s back in the last half of the last century was due to childhood vaccinations, along with antibiotics, sulfa and penicillin. I’ve seen far more drug reactions from antibiotics than I’ve seen vaccination reactions.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005140.html
I’ll bet that everyone here over 50 knows someone who had polio. I’ve actually visited with one of the last Americans in an iron lung. And yet, we’ve nearly wiped out polio in the world.
Have you seen someone with blindness from measles? I have. I had measles and rubella, and have taken care of people who were blind and deaf due to these diseases, and heard women tell me about stillbirths, but have only seen one case in my 20 years of practice. A million people still die each year from measles around the world.
No one survived “lock jaw” or tetanus, until the mid-1990’s, when our ability to keep them alive on the ventilator and IV nutrition. And while it pops up here and there, I’ve never seen a case of tetanus.
The vaccine against a simple bacteria that is/was best known for causing ear infections was also the cause of the majority of bacterial meningitis. The vaccine against Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) came out in the late ‘80’s, just as I was beginning medical school. I’ve never seen bacterial meningitis since I graduated residency (and left a tertiary medical center in San Antonio) in 1990.
Two years ago, I got my new Whooping Cough vaccination in September, just before we had an outbreak in our town. One lady I know had fractured ribs, and still has lung disease as a side effect of her whooping cough. My husband caught it and coughed for 3 months. For about a month, he would literally cough so hard that I’d bounce on my side of the king sized bed.