ALAN FLETCHER was thinking about A fact or two.... and keyed into 
cyberspace:
AF> Hi Mark,
AF> You wrote to Bob,
AF> > My youngest son, and you know his situation, has a classmate whose
AF> > is a foster child. The child's birth "parents" failed to have the
AF> > child immunized against polio because they believed the whacko
AF> > conspiracy nuts about the CDC, AMA, FDA, etc. The child cannot
AF> > walk. A tragic impact on such a small life.
AF> I, for example, am not a whacko conspiracy nut as I believe that
AF> every parent who believes in innoculations should go out and get
AF>their  child or children innoculated. OTOH, the statistics in both
AF>Europe  and the U.S.A. tell a very different story for every disease
AF>which  has been innoculated against over the past few decades. Every
AF> graph shows a plunging curve (more like a straight line) which
AF> was nearly down to negligible (in comparison) before any public
AF> innoculation programs were started. If a curve (or straight line)
AF> plunges for about 9 tenths of its length (i.e. to the point where
AF> innoculation was first introduced) is there any reason to believe
AF> that it will not continue down to zero without innoculation? I
AF> don't think so. In fact many of the curves actually showed a
AF> slight hiccup upwards shortly after innoculation programs were
AF> introduced (you said you had a copy of Sagan I believe). I
AF> personally am still convinced that innoculations were and still
AF> are one of the biggest allopathic "hypes" in history. There is
AF> a growing number of people here in Germany who also share this
AF> opinion and I have not yet heard of one instance where someone
AF> has regretted it. IOW..the trend downwards is certainly (as all
AF> statistics show quite dramatically) not the result of innoculation
AF> but IN SPITE OF IT. To put it another way, diseases like polio
AF> are disappearing in modern countries because of one (or more)
AF> other factors.
Alan, I have been to refugee camps in Asia, the Middle East and Africa. 
Disease is rampant because of the fact that sanitation is non-existent. 
When reasonable sanitary controls are in place, the incidence of disease 
goes down significantly. 
HOWEVER, and that is a BIG HOWEVER, that is not enough. Vaccination is 
required, as that is one means by which some immunity is established. 
It is a combination of many things which wiped out smallpox, and 
vaccination was one of them.
                ===>The Voice of Reason<===
                     mark.probert@juno.com
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