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Small pox and rubella? We'll take our chances. Sorry, but when I was a criminal investigator in the Army I found out the bad way that the 6-month shot is a potential killer. The family was devastated and the neighborhood came out to console them. Luckily I was assigned the hospital interviews as the neighborhood was about to riot over our presence that night. Their child died the night of the 6-month shots. When I interviewed the immunization nurse I asked her if she thought the shots may have somehow been a factor in the child's death (SIDS). She said: "we're not supposed to talk about that".

During the investigation I did extensive research on immunization and SIDS. We couldn't just say "SIDS" as that's considered the easy 'cop-out' for cases of child abuse as many apparent SIDS cases were found to actually be cases of child abuse/murder. But this actually was a SIDS case and we had to substantiate it. The best I could find was a statistically significant correlation between the 6-month shots and SIDS. That allowed us to cite SIDS and close the case.

But I remember that family, the child's death and the research I did on their behalf. The immunization risk calculations are based upon infants not having mature immune systems whereby they are vectors for disease as the mother brings them along in many public places. In effect children are Faustian victims of a risk-vs-reward numbers play, but the numbers reflect 19th century medical realities, not 21st century medical capabilities and the victims are almost all on the reward side. I say that's now the risk to the population.

They really need to update their calculations. Far more children are injured and killed than the likelyhood of getting diseases such as small pox, rubella, etc.

My daughter never got a small pox vaccination...The doctor said at the time that small pox was zero in the US. That was back in the 60’s, before we had millions of illegals coming into the country...Immigrants were scanned for disease and if they had any, no entry into the country.

Only if one was going oversea's did they need the vaccination....