Interesting, but irrelevant. The only relevant issue is whether more people contract the disease if everyone gets vaccinated or not.
It’s a statistical question, nothing more.
If I showed you had a statistical chance of 1 in 10,000 of contracting polio if you took the vaccine, you might think that is terrible.
But if I then point out that without the vaccine your odds are 1 in 50, it should change your point of view.
I actually heard a so called health care expert insist that there is something called ‘herd immunity’ meaning that if most of a group are inoculated then all are inoculated.
It made no sense at all but then nothing coming from any experts makes sense. Not just about inoculations, but about everything coming from ‘experts’.
So. . .if it produces an infection, however mild, how can they say it does not produce the disease?
Sounds to me like the injected vaccine is the way to go.
At any rate, below is the site address. Sorry, don't know how to paste as a hyperlink.
http://childrenshospitalblog.org/live-virus-vaccine-vs-killed-virus-vaccine-whats-the-difference/
it can...I recently spoke to a woman who swears her child was infectected by a vacinated child in day care.
What a load of cr*p. The article cited in the post says the reason for increasing pertussis infections is lack of vaccination.
The rate of pertussis peaked in the 1930s, with 265,269 cases and 7518 deaths reported in the United States. This rate decreased to a low in 1976, when 1010 cases and 4 deaths occurred because of vaccines.
It is these anti-vaccination people who are killing others, not vaccinated healthcare workers who are immune to the disease. If all adults would get their TDAP boosters, the disease would be back to 1976 levels.
Pertussis vaccines do not confer lifetime immunity. It is the unvaccinated parents and caregivers that are the problem.
I got it last year. It had been about 9 years since my last tetanus shot - before they put the pertussis vaccine into the adult tetanus shot - and I got exposed somehow.
The good news is that whooping cough is not dangerous in adults. You cough til you puke, but you aren't likely to die.
The bad news is that I probably exposed a lot of people to the virus before it was diagnosed. In adults it just looks like a bad cold followed by a lingering cough . . . so by the time you eliminate the other possibilities and get the titer done, it's been 6 weeks or so.
More good news: the folks I work with have their kids vaccinated, and keep their own vaccines up to date. So nobody caught it from me (that we know of). My dear husband had his tetanus booster just 2 years ago, and he did not cough the first cough.
Thank goodness for herd immunity, or I could have made a lot of people sick. I have no idea who made me sick!
Poking holes ping.
Whooping cough vaccines have been in use since the 1930’s.
If we don’t know the answer by now, we’re getting screwed.