-=> Quoting Ty Meissner to George Lagergren <=-
 TM> On 08-29-97  13:07, George Lagergren typed to Mark Probert
 TM> regarding: => Vaccines <=
 MP> Someone  just emailed me about vaccines and how they are the products
 MP> of various  conspiracies. I burned their computer down.
 
 GL> Mark  -->  As mentioned above, there is a lot of debate about
 GL> vaccines.    For example, take polio.  There ia a polio
 GL> vaccine to prevent a person from catching polio.  There are
 GL> some who say this vaccine has caused the polio virus to
 GL> mutate into the virus which causes the chronic fatigue
 GL> symdrome (CFS) virus.
 TM> What scientific evidence for this exists ?   The last I heard,
 TM> the cause of CFS was still undetermined.
 
     Ty  -->  I do not know.  I only read it somewhere.
 GL> So does one skip the vaccine to
 GL> avoid the future event but risk catching the current event
 GL> (polio) ???
 GL> A "catch-22" situation.  I, myself, prefer getting the
 GL> vaccine.
 TM> notion you report.   I reccomend as a great read, Carl Sagan's
 TM> _Demon Haunted World_ which deals directly with the current rise
 TM> of psuedo-science, bad science, tabloid science ( or even Fidonet
 TM> science ).  Future historians will note that one of the Internets
 
     Ty  -->  Thanks for the info.
 TM> parents AGAINST vaccinating their children because one out of
 TM> every 200,000 or so had an undesirable or atypical reaction to
 TM> the vaccine. 
 TM> The cost (economic and human/emotional) of treating the
 TM> preventable illnesses which result from this foolish notion far,
 TM> far exceed those of the few cases of atypical reactions to the
 TM> vaccines. 
 
     Ty  -->  I agree.  I prefer the vaccine over the disease.
                Thanks again for your info and post.
 
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