[cripplecreek]

I have no firm beliefe on this issue but i do find the rate of autism and vaccination rates rising at the same level and time frame to be pretty suspect.

Personally i think we're an over vaccinated society anyway. In my case i missed the majority of vaccinations due to the fact that i had my spleen removed as a child. This made doctors reluctant to vaccinate me.

At 40 years old the doc says im healthier than most teenagers and ive only been bedridden sick about 3 times in my life.

[buffyt]

My brother in law is a doctor and he said that he thinks lupus is caused by all the vaccines, allergy shots, etc. that we take. It makes our immune system overactive, just as AIDS does the opposite. Also, now they are saying that women who take a lot of antibiotics are at increased risk of breast cancer. My mother in law took antibiotics all the time for her sinuses, and she had breast cancer; she had chemo and radiation. She took allergy shots all the time, and she died of LUPUS. I am convinced that there is a relationship. But supposedly without vaccines more people would die?

[Kay]

Interesting. If you died from pneumococcal pneumonia, your family could successfully sue your doctor for not giving you pneumococcal vaccine. They could win millions if you were not advised to get the vaccine. One of the first thing doctors do after a patient has a splenectomy is to give them pneumococcal vaccine.

Asplenic people are well known to be at much greater risk for overwhelming infections.

God has blessed you with good health.

In my opinion, if you ever get a fever over 101, you should remind your doctor that you are missing your spleen. Doctors need help remembering their patient's past medical histories.

[ScudEast]

In my case I didn't get a pertusis (whooping cough) vaccination as a child as the vaccination was causing concern. I caught it as part of the epidemic that followed this and have a weak chest to this date. I think every vaccination has to be considered in isolation with regard to risk and benefit.