For those of us who believe in evolution (sadly, most MDs just give lip-service to it), the various childhood diseases provide important cardiovascular and immunological benefits. For instance, this study publlished in a major cardiology journal has shown that people who get the real mumps or measles are later in life much more likely to…
For those of us who believe in evolution (sadly, most MDs just give lip-service to it), the various childhood diseases provide important cardiovascular and immunological benefits. For instance, this study publlished in a major cardiology journal has shown that people who get the real mumps or measles are later in life much more likely to survive a heart attack than those people who got vaccinated against these diseases.
Except for infants and children who are starving or who are grossly malnourished, the average first world country children should GET the real mumps or measles.
An interesting take. I had measles, mumps and chicken pox as a child. I did not have whooping cough as a child (and I can't remember whether I was immunized or not) but got it as an adult when almost all the students in my daughter's high school came down with whooping cough. Nobody suspected this because who would have guessed that all the 15,16 and 17 year old kids who had been immunized as children against pertussis would then get it as teenagers. In fact the Maryland Department of Health was so dumb they thought that I was the index case (only because the pulmonologist I went to see tested for antibodies, not that that was necessary for a diagnosis since the symptoms were really obvious). Likewise I didn't get Rubella as a child but when I was vaccinated for Rubella as a resident, 3 weeks later I woke up one morning and felt a massive lymph node in my neck and on examination and an enlarged spleen. At the time I'd completely forgotten that I had had the Rubella shot 3 weeks prior and only remembered this later. Biopsy of the lymph node (and at that time in the UK an enlarged lymph node in the neck was considered to be a lymphoma unless proven otherwise) revealed non-specific inflammation. Well lesson learned especially since the chances of my examining a pregnant woman in internal medicine/gastroenterology while suffering from Rubella (which would have been obvious) was close to zero.
For those of us who believe in evolution (sadly, most MDs just give lip-service to it), the various childhood diseases provide important cardiovascular and immunological benefits. For instance, this study publlished in a major cardiology journal has shown that people who get the real mumps or measles are later in life much more likely to survive a heart attack than those people who got vaccinated against these diseases.
Except for infants and children who are starving or who are grossly malnourished, the average first world country children should GET the real mumps or measles.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26122188/
The entire public perception about measles etc is created by media's fearmongering.
One death from measles gets more media coverage than 100,000 deaths from opioids or 100,000 deaths from medical/hospital errors.
The number one enemy of the public is the mainstream media. Until the media loses its hold over the people, little will change.
An interesting take. I had measles, mumps and chicken pox as a child. I did not have whooping cough as a child (and I can't remember whether I was immunized or not) but got it as an adult when almost all the students in my daughter's high school came down with whooping cough. Nobody suspected this because who would have guessed that all the 15,16 and 17 year old kids who had been immunized as children against pertussis would then get it as teenagers. In fact the Maryland Department of Health was so dumb they thought that I was the index case (only because the pulmonologist I went to see tested for antibodies, not that that was necessary for a diagnosis since the symptoms were really obvious). Likewise I didn't get Rubella as a child but when I was vaccinated for Rubella as a resident, 3 weeks later I woke up one morning and felt a massive lymph node in my neck and on examination and an enlarged spleen. At the time I'd completely forgotten that I had had the Rubella shot 3 weeks prior and only remembered this later. Biopsy of the lymph node (and at that time in the UK an enlarged lymph node in the neck was considered to be a lymphoma unless proven otherwise) revealed non-specific inflammation. Well lesson learned especially since the chances of my examining a pregnant woman in internal medicine/gastroenterology while suffering from Rubella (which would have been obvious) was close to zero.