Here is something to read- Vaccinations:Weapons of Mass Destruction.I hope you read this and believe it or not its up to you.There is no proof vaccinations dont cause harm.There is more proof of harm than preventing illness.People who get vaccinated still end up with illnesses.Why do you think it would be a threat to everyone if someone chooses not to vaccinate shouldnt the vaccinated be safe.Apparantly the vaccinations probably dont work at all.One flu shot and I was sick for 2 months.You can beleive they work but weres the proof they work and are safe?

I couldnt find a link for this but just do a search on Vaccinations weapons of Mass Destruction and read any of the articles.

I personally don't believe vaccines are "evil", but I also haven't vaccinated any of mine since my eldest had a horror reaction to one. What I have a problem with is parents not being given all the information they need to make an informed choice - it would be like going to an election having only heard the presidents policies and no alternative.
As Julie said, the proof of vaccines actually achieving any great good are fairly limited. Apart from Smallpox and Polio - which were already on a sharp decline for other reasons when vaccination started - they haven't actually caused a serious decline in any condition. In fact, my own doctor told me that they base some diagnosis now on whether or not a person is vaccinated - eg. If you have been vaccinated you have acute bronchitis, if you're unvaccinated you have whoping cough.
Vaccinated children (and adults) still get the illnesses they are supposed to be safe from, but doctors tell them they would have had it much worse if they HADN'T been vaccinated - I don't know how many kids from school I've seen with chickenpox who were vaccinated.
My point, anyway, is that parents should have enough information to make a valid choice. For myself, I considered the risk of my child getting measles AND having a severe enough case to cause hospitilisation, long term effects or death (about 1 in 1000) didn't weigh up against the risk of him having a serious reaction to the vaccine causing hospitalisation, long term effects or death (about 1 in 200). Other people make their own choices, as they should, and I have no problem with that - I have a problem with misinformation.

But I still love you Priscilla, and you're still a great mum!

Also, there have been outbreaks of measles lately and guess what? They were all vaccinated children. Go figure!

about the informed decisions, as adults is it not our jobs to ask questions, research, gather information before we decide to do something? i understand that a lot of young people have kids and for lack of a better phrase, dont know any better, but i would like to think that the other adults in the family would guide, like i do with my kids. i am not talking about back before it was made public that thirmasil could be the cause, i am talking about the last 20 yrs when the public was aware and didnt ask questions? i am guilty myself, never questioned vaccines, but now, i go with my grandkids and i request the vaccines with no thirmasil. i know i have yet to spell that right lol! about all the ones that had to be threatened last week to get them to get their kids vaccinated, in my opinion the majority of them were probably just didnt take their kids to the doctor/health dept and had to be pushed. for the ones that had whatever reason to not vaccinate they should have done what everyone else does, there are ways around it. people just have to actually do it. no different then homeschooling, when a person decides to home school they cant just pull the kids out of school. there are certain legal steps they have to take, costs nothing, but you have to do it. i homeschooled my kids and had to stay in contact with the board of education every yr, it covered my ass and theirs. julishere, love you too, but vaccines being weapons of mass destruction is a bit far fetched for me, seriously, if the gov wanted to do mass destruction all they would have to do is taint something with fatal poison and accomplish the mass destruction. of course some people would take all the blame and be punished, but as we all know, our gov is not above that are they, can we say John F. Kennedy? :)

OMT from what I have also read the vaccines that don't have the thimerosal still have trace amounts. Then when you add all the trace amounts it equals something. Not sure, but right now I am not going to vaccinate the boys anymore. Not until I feel they are ready to get the injection. Maybe they will be 25 before I think they can have them LOL. Not really sure I am just really scared of what will happen if I do it perhaps regression, loosing all language, and the list goes on. I am not against vaccines just not right now for my little guys. Denise

It is your choice to vaccinate or not vaccinate your child. As a mom and a nurse it is my absoulute responsibility to find out all the information I can about what I my child is ingesting, inhaling or being injected with. No one method is the correct method for every person.

P, I have to agree,sit back everyone and grab a tissue: I met a woman, actually she waas a manager of an apartment complex , where I was trying to get an apartment at. She told me that sheHas a son with autism, so I asked questions, at the time Alex was a baby, but very delayed, etc. She cried and told me that he was born normal, at age 6 he developed a fever in the middle of the night, she gave him tylenol and put him back to bed , of course she waited until the med brought the fever down.In the morning she went in and checked on him, she said he was NEVER THE SAME! She called an ambulance her son never spoke a word again, he was later diagniosed with autism! Why? Well she told me that she refused the "new"
chicken pox vaccine, and that her son had gotten c/p but had not yet broken out, fever was the symptom, he broke out a couple days after she had him in hosp. So I asked her, what gave him autism? She said the fever , thus the fever was from C/P and because he had not had the vaccine for it , he got the worst of it.I wanted to share this, and yet I still say , to each his/her own, we all have our beliefs, and a numourus amount of people can read the very same article , yet percieve it in many different ways, so who's to say what is written is right? or that what is written is interpreted to all in the same manner? Alex has had all his vaccines, yes we did delay some due to respiortory problems, non-related to any vaccine, but he has gotten them all.When he was small I demanded a cause, I sat down and had a heart-to-heart with his doctor, she told me that autism is clearly unknown of any single cause. I asked about the vaccines , she said that be it the case, Alex showed developemental delays long before many of his vaccines. I guess when ya live this life with your child for 14 years ya tend to just accept and deal with the issues at hand, what and how to prepare for their future.

Forgot to add, Alex did get chicken pox, he had the vaccine, but never got a fever, I didn't even know until he broke out with a few small spots , his doc. confirmed them to be c/p , he was lucky! When I had c/p as a little girl, I itched to death and was miserable! Alex had no fever, itching, nodda...... Just spots!

There are vaccines in Calif. not using thimerosal but a natural thing. And a study of it for the past 2 1/2 years autism in that area has dropped 37 %, its risen everywhere else where they are have thimerosal and adding more shots... crazy.

Kris

Hang on a sec, I know there are a million known or suspected causes for autism, but chickenpox at age 6??? That seems a bit far fetched to me, surely he would have had to have some signs before that, or maybe its not autism as such but a brain damage that looks and behaves like autism. That just sounds a bit strange to me

All my four kids have been vaccinated, including flu shots. Only my oldest is on the spectrum. All it takes for me is to see an old movie like "Penny Serenade" to see the death rate among children before vaccines and antibiotics to make me fervently grateful for modern medicine. I completely agree with requesting vaccines without thimerosal. That's just good sense.

Stayhomemum, It was not the chicken pox themselves , it was the fever he got before he actually broke out, his mom was treating the fever and it got so high that it caused severe brain damage, she said she wished she had gotten the vaccine and maybe, just maybe the chicken pox would have been in a milder form. I did forget to add that at the hosp. he had seizures ongoing. This child was born just fine, videos of pre-k and kinder. He was quite a character! My understanding is that any type of brain tramua could cause this , I don't know , but I think the fever and seziures due to the fever played a big role in his altered life. How do you go from being normal to autistic in a matter of 24 hours or less????? Just like autism??????what are all the causes?????? I guess we must except that each person may have gotten it differently.

I'm not telling any one what to do or not to do we all have our own reasons for vaccinating our kids or not, my main reasons are the Mercury they have in shots and it really doesn't make any sense to me to shot kids up with deadly diseases when they have such a small and weak immune systems it has to have some effect on their bodies. and all the new vaccines just don't work as well as the older ones like the chicken pox shot now they say you have to get it twice, well none of my kids have gotten it and I won't let them if you get the chicken pox shot you are at a great risk of getting shingles when you get older. chicken pox are not that bad, and if you are worried about not getting it and your kids not being able to got to school just go to the nurse and tell them you refuse to give your child that shot and they have you sing a slip say that you voluntarily didn't get that shot done. I know you can do it in Missouri , plus the flu shot is pointless it doesn't cover all the strands of the flu, it takes a month to work, and why would you be so worried about getting the flu that you would subject your self to a yearly shot and they you can still get the flu.