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To: agsloss

What evidence leads you to believe they don't vaccinate?


3 posted on 04/20/2005 8:29:49 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
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To: AppyPappy

They usually don't. My grandfather (Mennonite) wasn't certain if he should put lightning rods on his barn, since he didn't want to interfere with God's will if God should decide to strike his barn.


7 posted on 04/20/2005 8:34:52 AM PDT by ikka
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I live among Amish farmers and they sure as heck do vaccinate their babies/toddlers. I hate it when they bottle up my doctors office because they all come at once in a van with back to back appointments spanning two plus hours. They do take very good care of their children and afford them many hours of play and attention.


9 posted on 04/20/2005 8:36:09 AM PDT by blackdog (Happy as a bastard on father's day............)
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To: AppyPappy

"What evidence leads you to believe they don't vaccinate?"



It is part of their culture -- they reject eveything modern, including electricity and automobiles (they still drive horse n buggy). They claim a religious exemption from otherwise "mandatory" vaccinations.

Curiously enough, in spite of the on-going controversy about vaccinations, no one had asked this question before.


13 posted on 04/20/2005 8:37:06 AM PDT by Mack the knife
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To: AppyPappy

See Part 2 of the article, which I just posted.


16 posted on 04/20/2005 8:39:21 AM PDT by agsloss
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What evidence leads you to believe they don't vaccinate?

I don't know about Agsloss's experience but having midwifed for over 10 years for both 'Old Order' and 'Swartzendruber' Amish as well as a Mennonite community, I can definitely say that the more traditional the community the more resistant to such things.

17 posted on 04/20/2005 8:39:49 AM PDT by YankeeinOkieville
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Actually - the Amish have been extremely resistant to vaccination from the beginning of the practice.

Just a simple search of "vaccination Amish" revealed the following:

http://www.avn.org.au/Vaccination%20Information/Measles_casestudies.htm

Which actually mentions the lack of vaccinations among the Amish.

And then this from another site:

Vaccinators failed to eradicate measles, so now they claim success in reducing measles incidence between 1970 and 1987. However, it has been published that the very unvaccinated Amish communities did not report a single case of measles between 1970 and 1987. Then, since 1987, both the unvaccinated Amish and the well vaccinated outside communities started experiencing huge outbreaks of measles. Quite obviously, vaccination was totally irrelevant. Quite likely, the sustained small outbreaks of measles between 1970-87 in the vaccinated was achieved by vaccination, which kept measles occurring.

(http://www.eaglefoundation.net/Hearings%20on%20HepB.htm)


61 posted on 04/20/2005 9:19:12 AM PDT by TheBattman (Islam (and liberals) and gasoline producers and sellers- the cult of Satan)
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