A brief history of vaccine screw-ups: Vaccines have a more spotty history than many believe

American Thinker ^ | 02/04/2021 | Erwin Haas, MD

[RummyChick]

The measles vaccine is my case in point that there are problems with vaccines.

I fit the time frame but have no idea whether I got the bad one or the good one. I dont recall getting the measles but have to assume I got the bad one.

So I got the MMR shot..and still have ringing in both my ears that may or may not be due to the shot. Started about 3 days after the shot.

[Honest Nigerian]

Thanks for posting this. This kind of stuff should be presented in high school science classes. I think it was in my day.

[nickcarraway]

Is there a green vaccine for MMR?

[walkingdead]

In before the “we should vaccinate everyone for every little thing” crowd.

[2aProtectsTheRest]

Vaccines are imperfect and it’s worth having a discussion about the risks and benefits involved, but it’s important to be honest in such discussions. We have virtually wiped out most significant childhood diseases in my lifetime with vaccines.

Smallpox: gone. Polio: gone. Measles: gone. Pertussis (Whooping Cough): gone. Mumps: gone. Rubella: gone. Diphtheria: gone. Tetanus: gone. Varicella (chickenpox): gone.

Millions of lives saved. Millions saved from lifelong disability and/or disfigurement. About 1 in a million have a noteworthy reaction to a vaccine and most of those self-resolve in days or weeks. Sadly, some do suffer ill effects. But do you take a 0.00001% chance of a bad outcome to avoid a .5% chance of a bad outcome? Nearly everyone will gladly take those odds. And even now, we continue to improve vaccine safety. Just in the past couple years, flu shots that no longer carry a risk of chicken egg allergies became available.

[RummyChick]

there is one possibility for the ringing in my ears...I take blood pressure medicine -lisinopril.. that can have that side effect but have never had it...perhaps the MMR shot has triggered something.

[Slyfox]

When I went to kindergarten, in 1958, and one day I came home with chicken pox, mumps and measles - all at the same time. I got blamed for making my brothers and sisters sick.

All I remember is not wanting to move. My dad came in the bedroom and stroked my hair.

Even with that I am glad I got the wild version of those illnesses and not the vaccines. I was just sick for a couple of weeks.

[RummyChick]

Wow...I cant even imagine having all three at the same time.

[diatomite]

When I got chicken pox (I was about 4-5), I was driven over to my cousins to play with them.

[Slyfox]

A couple years later I got the polio and smallpox shots and I was good to go.

[brownsfan]

Lots of problems with swine flu vaccine. I was in the Navy at the time, so it wasn’t optional for me.

[T.B. Yoits]

There are those who argue that the spread of AIDS through Africa was due to the Polio vaccinations where seed stocks of vaccines were transported to distant regions and then standard tissue culture methods were used to amplify the virus at local production facilities.

Kidney cells were used for cultures and blood serum was used for media, both harvested from local primates and used in production. In South Africa, monkey tissue was used to amplify the Sabin oral polio vaccine.

[Slyfox]

All four of my kids got chicken pox at the same time. My daughter was 12 and the boys were 7, 3 and 1.

The younger 3 had varying numbers of pox which did not itch much. My daughter had them all over her back. She took lots of baths with baking soda.

[GailA]

Same for Smallpox, supposed to be permanent, It’s NOT. A-Holes destroyed existing samples.

[GailA]

DPT for my boys ended up dragging their leg for 3 weeks. Went to DT shot, Pertussis was the issue. Gardasil granddaughter developed Fibromyalgia and Rheumatoid Arthritis.

[TheConservativeBanker]

At about 12 months old (1951) I contracted diphtheria and scarlet fever at the same time. Family doctor advised my parents to look for an infant coffin. My mother and father gave me alcohol and ice baths around the clock until the fever broke. I was legally blind in one eye for 14 years after that, but had significant improvement later on. I am not an anti-vaxxer, but I do think that we have developed a vaccine cult in US public health circles.

[GailA]

Wait until Bydum’s Illegal’s hit the US, TB, Ebola, Dengue Fever, Black Plague, NO Vaccines.

[G Larry]

There has never been a "vaccine" produced without first Isolating the Virus.

(Which they have NOT accomplished with COVID)

They have only "sequenced" the virus, which is NOT sufficient to produce a true vaccine.

[Myrddin]

I picked up chickenpox at church at age 28. All 3 of my sons got it from me. My wife had it as a child and was spared. Thankfully, I didn't miss any work because I had already embraced doing my software engineering work from my home office. It was 1985, so no danger of having a video meeting dressed for a shower :-)