[SecAmndmt]

Yes, life was so much better when families needed to have as many children as possible in the hope at least some would run the smallpox, polio, diphtheria, mumps, measles, rubella, and other childhood maladies gauntlet to adulthood.

That makes for a good sales pitch for vaccines, but it simply is not true. Most vaccines were introduced a couple decades after the death rates from these viral diseases had started to drop. The death rates were already down 90-95% when the vaccines were introduced. This is because the reductions were a result of public sanitation measures and improved nutrition. How interesting that sufficient daily intake of vitamins A, Bcomplex, C, D3 and some minerals (esp zinc) makes one virtually immune to viral illness.

[phoneman08]

Horse hockey.

Put a kid with measles in a sterile classroom and the whole class will catch it.